partial payment

基本解释

After the debtor has discharged his debt, the deposit shall either be retained as partial payment of the debt or be returned.
债务人履行债务后，定金应当抵作价款或者收回。
Some served as soldiers in black units in the Union Army, which allowed its men, black and white, to take their guns home with them as partial payment of past due wages.
无论军营里的人们是黑人还是白人，联军都允许他们把枪支带回家，以充当过去拖欠的一部分工资。
When will the Non-Eligible Person (NEP) pregnant women have to pay the fees? In full or partial payment?
属非符合资格人士身分的孕妇应于甚麽时候缴费？缴费时需全數预缴或可分期缴交？

The idea is that in exchange for getting to defer or cut regular taxes you must make a partial payment now via the AMT.
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As part of that agreement and in return for a partial payment, the credit card company canceled the unpaid balance of the credit card account.
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The retiree, Charles Ash, had inherited the scrapbooks from his parents, who had received them as partial payment for a debt from Sneden's nephew during the Depression.
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