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Definition of delinquent in English: delinquentadjective dɪˈlɪŋkw(ə)ntdəˈlɪŋkwənt 1(typically of a young person) tending to commit crime, particularly minor crime. Example sentencesExamples - His guess as to how many of the little delinquent brats he works with will wind up in jail: Not too many of them.
- She had been teaching English in the state school system where she often worked with troubled or delinquent children.
- He was on the cusp of becoming a delinquent teenager when a Christian camp counselor asked if he was going to heaven or hell: He decided at that moment to dedicate his life to Christ.
- ‘When the previous home was there, which housed delinquent teenagers, they did not feel the need to fence them in like this,’ she added.
- Usually, these delinquent mothers are charged by the police and have to serve a sentence.
- But they are commonly seen as aberrations from a peaceful norm, or as the exceptional behaviour of a few young and delinquent drivers.
- In the aftermath of the incident, his government will have to take quick and resolute steps with thorough probes and punishments of the delinquent officials concerned.
- She's also the only proper grown-up on the show, trying to keep her family together as she deals with an unfaithful husband and a delinquent son.
- In his half-mast trousers, short-cut jacket and spiky wig, he looks like a delinquent Jack Horner.
- One thinks of Yeats's poem on another delinquent genius, Catullus.
- She got a particularly strong ovation, especially from female patrons, when she rendered a ditty about making delinquent fathers support their children.
- In some places, he used some harsh language to blame the irresponsible parents for their lack of support for their delinquent children.
- When we focus only on delinquent students, we allow some of the real culprits in this cycle of school degeneration to escape unscathed.
- In fact, they mattered more than her wretchedness, even more than my loved, lost and delinquent father who had put us in this situation.
- He is a farmer who marries a rich woman from the city and finds life in Athens with her and his delinquent son torturous.
- At this level, the authorities must deal with delinquent parents who literally nurture criminals, almost the way other parents work hard to mould their children into decent citizens.
- She was probably some delinquent teenager's mom.
- Punish the delinquent employees and also the people who contaminate the atmosphere.
- The home was intended to provide temporary shelter for dependent and delinquent children until permanent placement in homes or institutions could be arranged.
- The truth is, we're just beginning the real descent into Lawsuit Hell - a place where average citizens injured by delinquent doctors or defective products are denied any recourse.
Synonyms lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, offending errant, badly behaved, troublesome, difficult, unmanageable, unruly, disobedient, uncontrollable, out of control 2formal Failing in one's duty. Example sentencesExamples - Leaflets published outside the country blamed the government, accusing it of being delinquent in carrying out its duties and criticizing the deployment of troops to suppress the uprising.
Synonyms negligent, neglectful, remiss, careless of one's duty, irresponsible, lax, slack North American derelict rare disregardful, inadvertent, oscitant - 2.1North American In arrears.
Example sentencesExamples - Loan delinquencies have steadily risen in the past 24 months, to the point where nearly 1 in 20 home loans is delinquent - one of the highest rates in the past decade.
- Lower provisions for delinquent loans also helped.
- A consumer can be delinquent on one account and pay other accounts on schedule.
- Additionally, house prices continue to appreciate for the time being, lowering the debt/equity ratio and making it less likely that the delinquent homeowners will walk away from their equity.
- Proceeds from the sale must be applied first to delinquent rent and, if authorized by the lease, to the costs of packing, moving and storing the property.
- The loan officer agreed to extend the delinquent's due date and offered him an additional $250,000 to get through the rough times.
- By the end of the year, 10% of the poor quality loans turn seriously delinquent with little chance of collection.
- In the circumstances, it seems extraordinarily delinquent on the part of the regulators to abrogate their collective responsibilities in this area.
- Fortunately, you can collect delinquent receivables and keep your valued clients.
- The various utilities might then have the leverage to disconnect each other's services in order to ensure recovery of arrear and delinquent accounts.
- It waived millions of dollars in delinquent fees on late-paying cardholders and increased credit limits to cash-starved clients.
- Say you've got $20 million in delinquent receivables.
- Chasing down delinquent accounts is no fun either.
- Take caution in pursuing delinquent accounts.
- He also warned that the City would continue to take credit control measures against delinquent accounts.
- As that happens, you'll see more companies trolling through tax records, looking for delinquent homeowners to exploit.
- Wage garnishment is a creditor collection tool that a delinquent debtor can escape by filing for bankruptcy.
- To be precise, the delinquency rates are calculated as the percent of borrowers holding a particular type of credit who are delinquent 30 + days on one or more accounts.
- If you failed to make payments and any of your accounts were sent to collection, information about the delinquent accounts appears here.
- At least 16 per cent are delinquent or in foreclosure, and 4.6 percent actually are in foreclosure.
Synonyms unsettled, outstanding, unresolved, unattended to, due, overdue, owing, owed, receivable, to be paid, payable, undischarged, in arrears, in the red
noun dɪˈlɪŋkw(ə)ntdəˈlɪŋkwənt A delinquent person. Example sentencesExamples - That is, these mounted men were regarded as tyrannical bullies, delinquents and pests.
- And appeal to young hip-hop delinquents in the process.
- First, stop selling your cars to show-offs and delinquents.
- It's easy to stereotype all adolescents as alcopop-swigging, hoodie-wearing, dope-smoking delinquents.
- And we are empowering the bullies, the delinquents and the troublemakers.
- If the education system fails in accomplishing that then it is responsible for the delinquents, the drop-outs, the rejects, the youth suicides.
- Many teenagers turn rebellious while the sick parent is still alive, sometimes leaving home or they begin running wild with other delinquents.
- Juvenile delinquents of all races were forced to train as soldiers to fight and kill those who opposed apartheid.
- ‘There is real and present danger not just from cyber delinquents but from cyber criminals and terrorists,’ he said.
- You wouldn't believe how much trouble those damn delinquents cause.
- A team which works with young delinquents has been recognised for its ground-breaking service.
- The note said if I didn't come home immediately, I'd be consigned to a center for delinquents.
- ‘Juvenile delinquents invariably have also had an unhappy time at school,’ he says.
- She was invited to deliver a speech to the young delinquents last December.
- The national economy is facing a new crisis amid growing concerns about the increasing number of credit delinquents and ensuing individual bankruptcies.
- How do we keep the rabble of criminals and delinquents at bay since they now pose a threat to all of us - rich, poor, powerful or inconsequential?
- One of the three of us would shin up the steps and tie the cardboard sign about 8ft above the ground so that local delinquents couldn't get at them.
- Civil disobedience of this kind will not land someone in jail, although delinquents will suffer from a high interest penalty.
- Left to their own devices, children become out of control, learn how to manipulate the adults in their circle and can become bullies and delinquents.
- There are also circumstances where delinquents disapprove of criminal offenses as strongly as nondelinquents.
Synonyms offender, wrongdoer, malefactor, lawbreaker, culprit, criminal hooligan, vandal, ruffian, hoodlum, lout juvenile delinquent, young offender informal juvie, tearaway British informal yob, yobbo, chav, hoodie Australian/New Zealand informal hoon archaic miscreant
Derivatives adverb The Commission shall treat all delinquently filed reports not accompanied by the late fee required hereunder as not having been filed. Example sentencesExamples - This grant has been paid to the author based upon authorization to write the book - authorization he claims to have - but in truth, has delinquently requested.
- The scheme also included the 1996-2001 tax years, when he delinquently filed returns for those years that included a total tax liability in excess of $1 million.
- I think these guys have delinquently failed to update the software map, however.
- For example, a low-level business user might need a report on the number of recent orders shipped delinquently.
Origin Late 15th century: from Latin delinquent- 'offending', from the verb delinquere, from de- 'away' + linquere 'to leave'. Definition of delinquent in US English: delinquentadjectivedəˈlɪŋkwəntdəˈliNGkwənt 1(typically of a young person or that person's behavior) showing or characterized by a tendency to commit crime, particularly minor crime. Example sentencesExamples - In fact, they mattered more than her wretchedness, even more than my loved, lost and delinquent father who had put us in this situation.
- She had been teaching English in the state school system where she often worked with troubled or delinquent children.
- She was probably some delinquent teenager's mom.
- She's also the only proper grown-up on the show, trying to keep her family together as she deals with an unfaithful husband and a delinquent son.
- He was on the cusp of becoming a delinquent teenager when a Christian camp counselor asked if he was going to heaven or hell: He decided at that moment to dedicate his life to Christ.
- She got a particularly strong ovation, especially from female patrons, when she rendered a ditty about making delinquent fathers support their children.
- Usually, these delinquent mothers are charged by the police and have to serve a sentence.
- Punish the delinquent employees and also the people who contaminate the atmosphere.
- In some places, he used some harsh language to blame the irresponsible parents for their lack of support for their delinquent children.
- But they are commonly seen as aberrations from a peaceful norm, or as the exceptional behaviour of a few young and delinquent drivers.
- One thinks of Yeats's poem on another delinquent genius, Catullus.
- ‘When the previous home was there, which housed delinquent teenagers, they did not feel the need to fence them in like this,’ she added.
- The truth is, we're just beginning the real descent into Lawsuit Hell - a place where average citizens injured by delinquent doctors or defective products are denied any recourse.
- In the aftermath of the incident, his government will have to take quick and resolute steps with thorough probes and punishments of the delinquent officials concerned.
- When we focus only on delinquent students, we allow some of the real culprits in this cycle of school degeneration to escape unscathed.
- He is a farmer who marries a rich woman from the city and finds life in Athens with her and his delinquent son torturous.
- His guess as to how many of the little delinquent brats he works with will wind up in jail: Not too many of them.
- At this level, the authorities must deal with delinquent parents who literally nurture criminals, almost the way other parents work hard to mould their children into decent citizens.
- The home was intended to provide temporary shelter for dependent and delinquent children until permanent placement in homes or institutions could be arranged.
- In his half-mast trousers, short-cut jacket and spiky wig, he looks like a delinquent Jack Horner.
Synonyms lawless, lawbreaking, criminal, offending - 1.1North American In arrears.
Example sentencesExamples - Say you've got $20 million in delinquent receivables.
- By the end of the year, 10% of the poor quality loans turn seriously delinquent with little chance of collection.
- A consumer can be delinquent on one account and pay other accounts on schedule.
- Loan delinquencies have steadily risen in the past 24 months, to the point where nearly 1 in 20 home loans is delinquent - one of the highest rates in the past decade.
- He also warned that the City would continue to take credit control measures against delinquent accounts.
- As that happens, you'll see more companies trolling through tax records, looking for delinquent homeowners to exploit.
- Additionally, house prices continue to appreciate for the time being, lowering the debt/equity ratio and making it less likely that the delinquent homeowners will walk away from their equity.
- The loan officer agreed to extend the delinquent's due date and offered him an additional $250,000 to get through the rough times.
- Take caution in pursuing delinquent accounts.
- If you failed to make payments and any of your accounts were sent to collection, information about the delinquent accounts appears here.
- Chasing down delinquent accounts is no fun either.
- Fortunately, you can collect delinquent receivables and keep your valued clients.
- It waived millions of dollars in delinquent fees on late-paying cardholders and increased credit limits to cash-starved clients.
- Lower provisions for delinquent loans also helped.
- Proceeds from the sale must be applied first to delinquent rent and, if authorized by the lease, to the costs of packing, moving and storing the property.
- Wage garnishment is a creditor collection tool that a delinquent debtor can escape by filing for bankruptcy.
- The various utilities might then have the leverage to disconnect each other's services in order to ensure recovery of arrear and delinquent accounts.
- To be precise, the delinquency rates are calculated as the percent of borrowers holding a particular type of credit who are delinquent 30 + days on one or more accounts.
- At least 16 per cent are delinquent or in foreclosure, and 4.6 percent actually are in foreclosure.
- In the circumstances, it seems extraordinarily delinquent on the part of the regulators to abrogate their collective responsibilities in this area.
Synonyms unsettled, outstanding, unresolved, unattended to, due, overdue, owing, owed, receivable, to be paid, payable, undischarged, in arrears, in the red - 1.2formal Failing in one's duty.
Example sentencesExamples - Leaflets published outside the country blamed the government, accusing it of being delinquent in carrying out its duties and criticizing the deployment of troops to suppress the uprising.
Synonyms negligent, neglectful, remiss, careless of one's duty, irresponsible, lax, slack
noundəˈlɪŋkwəntdəˈliNGkwənt A delinquent person. Example sentencesExamples - Many teenagers turn rebellious while the sick parent is still alive, sometimes leaving home or they begin running wild with other delinquents.
- You wouldn't believe how much trouble those damn delinquents cause.
- ‘There is real and present danger not just from cyber delinquents but from cyber criminals and terrorists,’ he said.
- How do we keep the rabble of criminals and delinquents at bay since they now pose a threat to all of us - rich, poor, powerful or inconsequential?
- And appeal to young hip-hop delinquents in the process.
- A team which works with young delinquents has been recognised for its ground-breaking service.
- It's easy to stereotype all adolescents as alcopop-swigging, hoodie-wearing, dope-smoking delinquents.
- The national economy is facing a new crisis amid growing concerns about the increasing number of credit delinquents and ensuing individual bankruptcies.
- She was invited to deliver a speech to the young delinquents last December.
- One of the three of us would shin up the steps and tie the cardboard sign about 8ft above the ground so that local delinquents couldn't get at them.
- First, stop selling your cars to show-offs and delinquents.
- The note said if I didn't come home immediately, I'd be consigned to a center for delinquents.
- ‘Juvenile delinquents invariably have also had an unhappy time at school,’ he says.
- And we are empowering the bullies, the delinquents and the troublemakers.
- Juvenile delinquents of all races were forced to train as soldiers to fight and kill those who opposed apartheid.
- That is, these mounted men were regarded as tyrannical bullies, delinquents and pests.
- If the education system fails in accomplishing that then it is responsible for the delinquents, the drop-outs, the rejects, the youth suicides.
- Left to their own devices, children become out of control, learn how to manipulate the adults in their circle and can become bullies and delinquents.
- Civil disobedience of this kind will not land someone in jail, although delinquents will suffer from a high interest penalty.
- There are also circumstances where delinquents disapprove of criminal offenses as strongly as nondelinquents.
Synonyms offender, wrongdoer, malefactor, lawbreaker, culprit, criminal
Origin Late 15th century: from Latin delinquent- ‘offending’, from the verb delinquere, from de- ‘away’ + linquere ‘to leave’. |