Erected on the installment plan?

[Baker, John]

        Merriam-Webster, Webster's New World, and American Heritage all
seem to accept this meaning of installment (= installation) without
comment.

John Baker


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Eggcorn?:

Writing on the June primary in Alabama in / The Nation/, Bob Moser
said, "The vast majority of Alabamians had cheered Moore's _installment
_  of a
(snip)  monument to Old Testament law ...."

AM

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