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defaulter

Variant of default

noun

  1. failure to do something or be somewhere when required or expected; specif.,
    1. failure to pay money due
    2. failure to appear in court to defend or prosecute a case
    3. failure to take part in or finish a contest
  2. Comput. a preset choice, setting, etc. for automatic use as by a program when no other is specified by a user: often used attributively: a default disk drive on a PC
  3. Obsolete a fault, lack, or want

intransitive verb

  1. to fail to do something or be somewhere when required or expected; specif.,
    1. to fail to make payment when due
    2. to fail to appear in court when required
    3. to fail to take part in or finish a contest
  2. to lose a contest by default

transitive verb

  1. to fail to do, pay, finish, etc. (something) when required
  2. to lose (a contest, etc.) by default; forfeit

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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