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layaway

 noun
     
Related topics: Trade
lay‧a‧way [uncountable]
American EnglishBBT a method of buying goods in which you give the seller of the goods a small amount of money to keep the goods until you can pay the full price:
I put the dress on layaway.
—layaway adjective
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