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US
/dɪˈfɔɫtɝ/
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[ UK /dɪfˈɒltɐ/ ]
[ UK /dɪfˈɒltɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a contestant who forfeits a match
- someone who fails to make a required appearance in court
- someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
How To Use defaulter In A Sentence
- Far from seeking revenge, the worst defaulter I ever had dealings with cannot deny that I am always willing to accept a good post-obit. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
- The defaulters imprecate on themselves, quicquid haben: telorum armamentaria coeli: the part of Judas, the leprosy of Gieza, the tremor of Cain, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- His mind touched briefly on the two defaulters who were awaiting their fate in the basement cells.
- Fantastic grow the evening gowns Agents of the Fisc pursue Absconding tax-defaulters through The sewers of provincial towns .
- An alcoholic and a chronic defaulter, he is still under treatment because he's been dragged back every time he tries to default.
- In another case the defaulter was the son of a dissenting minister. Thrift
- All 13 of Waterford's tax defaulters were penalised for non-payment of income tax and for being the holders of bogus non-resident bank accounts.
- The number of credit defaulters has reached 4 million and business activities have yet to regain vitality, but the government is maintaining an optimistic view for an early recovery.
- We shall have a great deal of abuse, and reply and declamation from Bourk (148) (Burke), and vociferation from Lord Mahon, and perhaps a long day; and I must go down early, because I was yesterday when the House was called a defaulter; so I shall dine there, and after dinner I will collect upon paper what I hear of the transactions of the day. George Selwyn His Letters and His Life
- Kerry has the second highest number of defaulters with 15 paying a total of €1.38m, an average of €92,000.