Usually means: Initial payment for large purchase.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word down payment:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. down payment: Merriam-Webster
  2. down payment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. down payment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. down payment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. down payment: Vocabulary.com
  6. down-payment: Wordnik
  7. down payment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. down payment: Wiktionary
  9. down payment: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. down-payment, down payment: Dictionary.com
  11. Down payment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. down payment: Rhymezone
  13. down payment: FreeDictionary.org
  14. down payment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. down payment: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. down payment: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. DOWN PAYMENT: Accounting Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Down Payment: Investopedia
  8. down payment: Legal dictionary
  9. down payment: Financial dictionary
  10. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  12. Down payment: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  13. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. down payment: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Down payment: Construction Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (down payment)

noun:  (law, finance) A payment representing a fraction of the price of something being purchased, made to secure the right to continue making payments towards that purchase.
noun:  (by extension) Any initial commitment signifying an intention to carry out a larger future commitment, even though no legal rights or obligations are secured.

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