Default
[dɪ'fɔːlt;'diːfɔːlt] or [dɪ'fɔlt]
Definition
(noun.) loss due to not showing up; 'he lost the game by default'.
(noun.) act of failing to meet a financial obligation.
(verb.) fail to pay up.
Editor: Rochelle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires; as, this evil has happened through the governor's default.
(n.) Fault; offense; ill deed; wrong act; failure in virtue or wisdom.
(n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc.
(v. i.) To fail in duty; to offend.
(v. i.) To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.
(v. i.) To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.
(v. t.) To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.
(v. t.) To call a defendant or other party whose duty it is to be present in court, and make entry of his default, if he fails to appear; to enter a default against.
(v. t.) To leave out of account; to omit.
Editor: Mamie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Omission, neglect, failure.[2]. Want, lack, destitution, defect, deficiency.
Edited by Elsie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Lapse, forfeit, omission, defect, delinquency, absence, want, failure
ANT:Maintenance, appearance, plea, satisfaction, forthcoming, supply, presence
Editor: Zeke
Definition
n. a fault failing or failure: defect: neglect to do what duty or law requires: failure to account for money entrusted to one's charge: offence.—v.i. to fail through neglect of duty: to fail to appear in court when called upon.—n. Default′er one who fails to appear in court or to account for money entrusted to his care or to settle a debt of honour.—Judgment by default judgment given against a person because he fails to plead or make an appearance in court.
Checker: Mario
Examples
- But in default of a listener, she had to brood over the change in her life silently as heretofore. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I'll give you one, in default of a better. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Of course, I thought you were but a shepherd boy, who, in default of god-parents, had to be called by the name of your birthplace. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Even highly critical and insurgent intelligences, in default of any sustaining movements in the soul of the community, betrayed the same disposition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Austria turned against him (1813); all Europe was eager to rise against this defaulting trustee of freedom, this mere usurper. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Deep was the dismay of surveillante teachers, deeper the horror of the defaulting directress. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typist: Pearl