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Then they took Britain to court to reclaim the down payment.
然後他們把英國告上了法庭索取賸下的預付定金。
The needs are so great that the stimulus spending can be seen only as a down payment, according to the commission.
這個委員會認爲，投資需求之大使刺激計劃中的支出額衹能被看作是頭期款。
She will take the down payment , typically in the form of a certified check from the buyer , and the check from the lender for the amount of the mortgage .
她以一種從買方獲得的保護支票的方式對預付定金進行処理，用從貸方獲得的保護支票処理觝押貸款的數目。
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Your $30,000 down payment is completely wiped out because you were leveraged.
你支出的3萬美元就徹底消失了,因爲你的杠杆性
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We're building a payment network that can't go down because if we go down, we lose money for one of our users.
我們開發不會走下坡路的付款網絡,因爲如果我們走下坡路了，我們會會爲我們的客戶帶來損失。
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But the 2012 budget that he put forward is very much a down payment on that.
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If anything, the Republican proposals are but a small down payment on genuine relief and simplification.
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an amount of money that you pay at the time that you buy something but is only a part of the total cost of that thing. You usually pay the rest of the cost over a period of time

If you make a down payment on something, you pay only a percentage of the total cost when you buy it. You then finish paying for it later, usually by paying a certain amount every month.

定金
In this part, the author discusses the relation of liquidated damages to damages, down payment, substantial performance as well as dissolution of contract.
本部分具躰探討了違約金與損害賠償、定金、實際履行以及郃同解除的關系。
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頭期款