Usually means: Failure to fulfill an obligation.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. defaults: Merriam-Webster
  2. defaults: Collins English Dictionary
  3. defaults: Vocabulary.com
  4. Defaults, defaults: Wordnik
  5. defaults: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. defaults: Wiktionary
  7. defaults: Dictionary.com
  8. defaults: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Defaults (software), Defaults: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. defaults: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. defaults: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. defaults: Legal dictionary
  3. defaults: Financial dictionary
  4. WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Defaults: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. defaults: Hacking Lexicon
  3. defaults: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defaults: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (default)

noun:  (finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
noun:  (finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
noun:  (electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
noun:  A loss incurred by failing to compete.
noun:  A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
noun:  (often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
noun:  (law) The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
noun:  (obsolete) A failing or failure; omission of that which ought to be done; neglect to do what duty or law requires.
noun:  (obsolete) Lack; absence.
noun:  (obsolete) Fault; offence; wrong act.
verb:  (intransitive) To fail to meet an obligation.
verb:  (intransitive, law) To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
verb:  (intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose a competition by failing to compete.
verb:  (ambitransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
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