lay-away\ plan

lay-away\ plan
noun
A plan for buying something that you can't pay cash for; a plan in which you pay some money down and pay a little more when you can, and the store holds the article until you have paid the full price.

She could not afford to pay for the coat all at once, so she used the lay-away plan.


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