Usually means: Failure to fulfill an obligation.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. default: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. default: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. default: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. default: Collins English Dictionary
  5. default: Vocabulary.com
  6. Default, default: Wordnik
  7. default: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. default: Wiktionary
  9. default: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. default: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. default: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. default: Dictionary.com
  13. default: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. default: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Default (Atoms for Peace song), Default (Django Django song), Default (band), Default (computer science), Default (film), Default (finance), Default (law), Default: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Default: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. default: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. default: Rhymezone
  19. default, default: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. default: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Default: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. default: Free Dictionary
  23. default: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. default: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. default: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. default: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. default: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. DEFAULT: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Default: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  12. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Terms related to the Federal Reserve, banking and economics (No longer online)
  14. Default: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  15. Default: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  16. default: Finance-Glossary.com
  17. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  18. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  20. Default: Investopedia
  21. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  22. Glossary of International Trade Terms (No longer online)
  23. Default: INSOLVENCY
  24. Default (finance), default: Legal dictionary
  25. default: Financial dictionary
  26. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  27. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  28. Default: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  29. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. default: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. default: Netlingo
  3. default: CCI Computer
  4. default: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. Default: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  6. Karbo's Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Webopedia (No longer online)
  8. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  9. default: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. default: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. default: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. default: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Default: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Default: Construction Glossary
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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:  (transitive, intransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.

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