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• hire purchase — system for financing the purchase of plant and equipment, where the ownership is vested with the lender until the final payment is made. The borrower is required to place a deposit and make periodic (usually monthly) repayments at a flat rate of… …   Financial and business terms

• Hire purchase — (abbreviated HP) is the legal term for a contract, in this persons usually agree to pay for goods in parts or a percentage at a time. It was developed in the United Kingdom and can now be found in China, Japan, Malaysia, India, South Africa,… …   Wikipedia

• hire purchase —    Hire purchase, commonly abbreviated to HP (called ‘instalment credit’ in the USA, where the system emerged in the nineteenth century) plays an important but decreasing role in providing consumer credit, especially for poorer people, for the… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

• hire-purchase — a form of purchase under which the purchase price can be paid over an agreed period of time by instalments. During the period the goods purchased remain the property of the seller (or the hire purchase company to whom the seller has assigned his… …   Law dictionary

• hire purchase — HP A method of buying goods in which the purchaser takes possession of them as soon as an initial instalment of the price (a deposit) has been paid; ownership is obtained when all the agreed number of subsequent instalments have been completed. A …   Accounting dictionary

• hire purchase — HP A method of buying goods in which the purchaser takes possession of them as soon as an initial instalment of the price (a deposit) has been paid and obtains ownership of the goods when all the agreed number of subsequent instalments have been… …   Big dictionary of business and management

• hire purchase — N UNCOUNT: oft N n Hire purchase is a way of buying goods gradually. You make regular payments until you have paid the full price and the goods belong to you. [BRIT] ...the serious problem of hire purchase and credit card debts. ...buying a car… …   English dictionary

• Purchase — To buy, to be long, to have an ownership position. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. purchase pur‧chase 1 [ˈpɜːtʆs ǁ ˈpɜːr ] noun COMMERCE 1. [uncountable] the act of buying something: • Keep the receipt as your proof of purc …   Financial and business terms

• purchase — buy; be long; have an ownership position. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * ▪ I. purchase pur‧chase 1 [ˈpɜːtʆs ǁ ˈpɜːr ] noun COMMERCE 1. [uncountable] …   Financial and business terms

• purchase — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 buying sth ADJECTIVE ▪ cash ▪ credit ▪ online ▪ Make sure all online purchases are made through a secure server. ▪ bulk …   Collocations dictionary

• purchase — pur|chase1 W3S3 [ˈpə:tʃıs US ˈpə:r ] v [T] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: purchacier to try to get , from chacier to run after and try to catch ] formal to buy something ▪ You can purchase insurance on line. ▪ the growing demand to… …   Dictionary of contemporary English