Usually means: Fails to fulfill legal obligations.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. delinquent: Merriam-Webster
  2. delinquent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. delinquent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. delinquent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. delinquent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Delinquent, delinquent: Wordnik
  7. delinquent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. delinquent: Wiktionary
  9. delinquent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. delinquent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. delinquent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. delinquent: Dictionary.com
  13. delinquent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. delinquent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Delinquent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Delinquent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. delinquent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. delinquent: Rhymezone
  19. Delinquent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. delinquent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. delinquent: FreeDictionary.org
  22. delinquent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. delinquent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. delinquent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. delinquent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. delinquent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. delinquent: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Delinquent: Investopedia
  11. delinquent: Legal dictionary
  12. delinquent: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. delinquent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. delinquent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. delinquent: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (delinquent)

▸ adjective:  Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
▸ adjective:  Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled.
▸ adjective:  Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
▸ noun:  One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes.
▸ noun:  A person who has not paid their debts.
▸ noun:  (historical, derogatory) A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).

Similar:
due, guilty, owed, remiss, overdue, derelict, neglectful, negligent, incorrigible, juvenile delinquent, more...

Opposite:
law-abiding, upstanding, virtuous, well-behaved

Types:
juvenile delinquent, organized crime, drug dealer, gang member, car thief, pickpocket, burglar, mugger, more...

Phrases:
juvenile delinquent, delinquent children, Delinquent Habits, The Delinquent Season, The Delicate Delinquent, more...

Adjectives:
juvenile, young, defective, individual, more, potential, less, female, real, non, american

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Similar:
due, guilty, owed, remiss, overdue, derelict, neglectful, negligent, incorrigible, juvenile delinquent, more...

Opposite:
law-abiding, upstanding, virtuous, well-behaved

Types:
juvenile delinquent, organized crime, drug dealer, gang member, car thief, pickpocket, burglar, mugger, more...

Phrases:
juvenile delinquent, delinquent children, Delinquent Habits, The Delinquent Season, The Delicate Delinquent, destructive delinquent, opposite of delinquent, more...

Adjectives:
juvenile, young, defective, individual, more, potential, less, female, real, non, american

Colors:
    black,     dark gray,     navy blue,     crimson,     maroon, more...



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