down payment

They got me a loan to buy a house without a down payment.

The idea is that they may have received a break on the loan terms — a lower down payment required, or a lower interest rate charge — because lenders think kindlier of borrowers for primary residences.

Evanston, Illinois, just outside of Chicago, became the first city to make reparations available to its black residents in 2021, by offering qualified households money for expenses such as home repairs and down payments.

Earlier, the government announced it would relax targets for electric and hybrid cars and provide £2.3bn to boost electric car take-up and improve charging infrastructure as a "down payment" on Britain's industrial future.

It is a down payment on welfare reform, and a much bigger up front scorable spending cut to help the chancellor's numbers, and so avoid tax rises or missing her non-negotiable borrowing limits.