default
Other forms: defaults; defaulted; defaulting
As a setting, a default is automatic. You weren't sure why your new TV kept returning to the factory defaults until you realized you were sitting on the remote.
Default can also refer to a lack of other options. You shop at Green's by default; it's the only grocery store in town. Default is also a failure to pay a financial obligation. The number of loan defaults was down this month. As a verb, it means "to fail to pay." Your credit score will go down if you default on a loan.
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an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified
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synonyms:
default option
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type of:
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alternative, choice, option
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
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alternative, choice, option
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loss due to not showing up
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loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid
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synonyms:
nonpayment, nonremittal
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antonyms:
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payment
a sum of money paid or a claim discharged
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types:
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delinquency
nonpayment of a debt when due
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financial loss
loss of money or decrease in financial value
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payment
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act of failing to meet a financial obligation
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synonyms:
nonpayment, nonremittal
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failure
an act that fails
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failure
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fail to pay up
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Vocabulary lists containing default
Learn the vocabulary that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used to inspire a generation to break free from the "manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination." On August 28, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. Speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., King stood before an estimated quarter of a million people who had gathered to demonstrate for passage of the Civil Rights Act. This list focuses on King's use of figurative language.
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