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DEFAULTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does defaulter mean?
• DEFAULTER (noun)
The noun DEFAULTER has 3 senses:
1. someone who fails to make a required appearance in court
2. someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
3. a contestant who forfeits a match
Familiarity information: DEFAULTER used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who fails to make a required appearance in court
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("defaulter" is a kind of...):
absentee (one that is absent or not in residence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
deadbeat; defaulter
Hypernyms ("defaulter" is a kind of...):
debitor; debtor (a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "defaulter"):
deadbeat dad (a father who willfully defaults on his obligation to provide financial support for his offspring)
Derivation:
default (fail to pay up)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A contestant who forfeits a match
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("defaulter" is a kind of...):
contestant (a person who participates in competitions)
Context examples
Somebody broke down in a piece of knitting, and no one but Sophy was able to put the defaulter in the right direction.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I started, or rather (for like other defaulters, I like to lay half the blame on ill fortune and adverse circumstances) was thrust on to a wrong tack at the age of one-and-twenty, and have never recovered the right course since: but I might have been very different; I might have been as good as you—wiser—almost as stainless.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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