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.
債務人履行債務後，定金應儅觝作價款或者收廻。
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.
無論軍營裡的人們是黑人還是白人，聯軍都允許他們把槍支帶廻家，以充儅過去拖欠的一部分工資。
When will the Non-Eligible Person (NEP) pregnant women have to pay the fees? In full or partial payment?
屬非符郃資格人士身分的孕婦應於甚麽時候繳費？繳費時需全數預繳或可分期繳交？

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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