| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Default.[Websters]
2. To be blemished. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have faulted, missed, bugged, oversighted or sinned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be handicapped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have defected, lapsed, wanted or damaged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be stained or freckled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have flawed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have breached, cracked, lagged, gaped or voided. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have abused or outraged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have needed.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb default.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (default) | 1. Fail to pay up.[Wordnet]. 2. To fail in duty; to offend.[Websters]. 3. To fail in fulfilling a contract, agreement, or duty.[Websters]. 4. To fail to appear in court; to let a case go by default.[Websters]. 5. To fail to perform or pay; to be guilty of neglect of; to omit; as, to default a dividend.[Websters]. 6. 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.[Websters]. 7. To leave out of account; to omit.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: defaulting, defaulted, defaults, defaulter, defaulters, defaultingly and defaultedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DEFAULTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DEFAULTED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Called out of court, as a defendant or his cause.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Simple past tense and past participle of default. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: default
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Credit default option | In finance, a default option or credit default option is a put option that makes a payoff in the event the issuer of a specified reference asset defaults. Such a contract is also known as a "credit default swap". (references) | ||
| Credit default swap | The credit default swap (CDS) is the most widely used credit derivative. It is an agreement between a protection buyer and a protection seller whereby the buyer pays a periodic fee in return for a contingent payment by the seller upon a credit event (such as a certain default) happening in the reference entity. A CDS is often used like an insurance policy, or hedge for the holder of a corporate bond. The typical term of a CDS contract is five years, although being an over-the-counter derivative almost any maturity is possible. (references) | ||
| Default (computer science) | A default, in computer science, refers to a setting or value automatically assigned to a computer program or device, outside of user intervention. Such settings are also called presets, especially for electronic devices. (references) | ||
| Default argument | In computer programming, a default argument is an argument to a function that a programmer is not required to specify. (references) | ||
| Default gateway | A default gateway is a node on a computer network that serves as an access point to another network. (references) | ||
| Default judgement | A judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Default judgment | A judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Default judgment | Default judgment is a binding judgment in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant has not responded to a summons or has failed to appear before a court. (references) | ||
| Default logic | Default logic is a non-monotonic logic proposed by Ray Reiter to formalize reasoning with default assumptions. (references) | ||
| Default on | Fail to pay up. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Default option | An option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Default route | A default route is the network route used by a router when no other known route works for a given IP packet's destination address. A router determines which route is valid to reach an IP address by finding the "most specific match". That is, the network with the longest subnet mask that matches the IP address, wins. (references) | ||
| Default rule | In legal theory, a default rule is a rule of law that can be superseded by a contract, trust, will, or other legally effective agreement. Contract law, for example, can be divided into two kinds of rules: default rules and mandatory rules. Whereas the default rules can be modified by agreement of the parties, mandatory rules will be enforced, even if the parties to a contract attempt to override or modify them. One of the most important debates in contract theory concerns the proper role or purpose of default rules. (references) | ||
| Double default | Double default occurs in banking, when the obligor and the guarantor fail to meet their obligations. (references) | ||
| Judgement by default | A judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Judgment by default | A judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| To make default | (Law), to fail to appear or answer. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| To suffer a default | (Law), to permit an action to be called without appearing to answer. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Universal default | Universal Default is the term for a practice in the financial services industry for a particular lender to change the terms of a loan from the normal terms to the default terms (i.e. the terms and rates given to those who have missed payments on a loan) when that lender is informed that their customer has defaulted with another lender (even though the customer has not defaulted with the first lender). The growing use of this technique is one of the most controversial trends in the financial services industry. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: DEFAULTED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Defaulted debenture | Finance | A debenture or bond is so called when the borrower is unwilling or unable to pay the interest. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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