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Delinquent

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.

    "Fred is delinquent in making his car payment."

  2. 2
    Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled.

    "The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments."

  3. 3
    Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
Adjective
  1. 1
    past due; not paid at the scheduled time wordnet
  2. 2
    failing in what duty requires wordnet
  3. 3
    guilty of a misdeed wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes.

    "She had the consolation of knowing that any offence given to her dignity could be avenged on the delinquent who caused it, an act of justice which could not fail to be consolatory, since every one of her daughters had at times stood in stead of "guid King James's whipping-boy," when circumstances arose to disturb the equanimity of Lady Anne's imperious and irascible temper."

  2. 2
    a young offender wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who has not paid their debts.
  4. 4
    A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646). derogatory, historical

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.

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