hire system
English
Noun
- The system of buying and selling things via hire purchase.
- 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company:
- But the poverty of Kingsland is the diseased poverty of bead flowers in the front room and sticky furniture on the hire system.
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