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defaultnoun /dɪˈfɔːlt / /ˈdiːfɔːlt/1 [mass noun] Failure to fulfil an obligation, especially to repay a loan or appear in a law court: the company will have to restructure its debts to avoid default [count noun]: the deteriorating economy pushed defaults to almost $20 billion...- That subsection does not distinguish between non-appearance and non-compliance defaults.
- There are one or two ways of fine tuning the format, but the big issue is that defaults need to be avoided.
- This could cause defaults on debt repayments and require economic assistance from the international community.
Synonyms non-payment, failure to pay, non-remittance informal welshing, bilking British archaic levant 2 [in singular] A preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism when no alternative is specified by the user or programmer: the default is fifty lines [as modifier]: default settings...- Now that looks much better than the default uninstaller program!
- This behavior occurs even if you select the ‘Make this the default Internet connection’ option in the New Connection Wizard.
- Setting up Ethernet and using a default gateway on my LAN gave me Internet access in less than 30 seconds.
2.1 [usually as modifier] Something that is usual or standard: all my life, envy has been my default emotion SSRIs have become the default for adults with depression...- Others may ignore their accounts and settle for the default investment option, which will likely be conservative with a low investment return.
- The military are the default bad guys in sci-fi.
- The default position ought to be individual rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Synonyms normal, standard, usual, typical, stock, ordinary, customary, conventional, habitual, accustomed, expected, wonted, everyday, regular, routine, established, settled, set; unvarying, invariable, unchanging, changeless, unvaried; consistent, constant, stable, steady, static, uniform, predictable, obvious; favourite, choice, preferred, ideal; instinctive, automatic, involuntary, unconscious, reflex, knee-jerk, mechanical; spontaneous, impulsive, unthinking, unpremeditated, unintentional, unintended, unbidden, unwitting, inadvertent informal gut verb /dɪˈfɔːlt / [no object]1Fail to fulfil an obligation, especially to repay a loan or to appear in a law court: the dealer could repossess the goods if the customer defaulted some had defaulted on student loans...- The customer had defaulted on the loan and, although the judge made no specific finding to this effect, the appellant had lost about £30,000.
- During the period of the delay the value of the property upon which the loan was secured fell and was therefore insufficient to cover the plaintiffs loss when X defaulted on the loan.
- He did say, however, that in his view, Valleywood was profitable and that neither the companies nor Katana had ever defaulted on loans.
Synonyms fail to pay, not pay, renege, fail to honour, back out, backtrack, backslide; break one's promise/word, go back on one's word informal welsh, bilk 1.1 [with object] Declare (a party) to have defaulted and give judgement against that party: two semi-finalists were defaulted...- He won the junior US Open champion, was a runner-up in the boys' event at Roland Garros and made the semi-finals of junior Wimbledon in 1999 only to be defaulted for not turning up.
- First, they defaulted me, then they defaulted him.
- The 17-year-old might even have gone further in the singles, but was defaulted for turning up late to his semi-final.
2 ( default to) (Of a computer program or other mechanism) revert automatically to (a preselected option): when you start a fresh letter the system will default to its own style...- The new XP SP2 is said to have a beefed up version of this firewall, and it defaults to being automatically on (and they recommend that you leave it on).
- The program defaults to the PAL format among other things.
- Because they hid all drives with the profile system (to so called prevent people from messing with the computer) the computer illiterate students and teachers would save it wherever the program defaulted to.
Synonyms revert; select automatically Phrasesby default go by default in default in default of OriginMiddle English: from Old French defaut, from defaillir 'to fail', based on Latin fallere 'disappoint, deceive'. false from Old English: Along with default (Middle English), fail (Middle English), and fault (Middle English), false comes from Latin fallere ‘to deceive’. A false dawn is a light which in Eastern countries is briefly seen about an hour before sunrise. The expression, the translation of an Arabic phrase, is often used to describe a promising situation which has, or is likely to, come to nothing.
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