delinquent

Etymology

Definitions

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

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

   • The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
   • The station's financial difficulties came to a head last week when the Internal Revenue Service had its bank accounts frozen as a result of delinquent taxes.
3. 3

   Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation

   Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense

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   1. 4

      One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes.

   2. 5

      A person who has not paid their debts.

   3. 6

      A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).

The neighborhood

• synonymcavalier
• neighborderelict
• neighborrelic
• neighborrelict
• neighborrelinquish