failure to act; inaction or neglect

They lost their best client by sheer default.

failure to meet financial obligations.

Law . failure to perform an act or obligation legally required, esp. to appear in court or to plead at a time assigned.

Sports . failure to arrive in time for, participate in, or complete a scheduled match.

lack; want; absence.

Computers . a value that a program or operating system assumes, or a course of action that a program or operating system will take, when the user or programmer specifies no overriding value or action.

to fail in fulfilling or satisfying an engagement, claim, or obligation.

to fail to meet financial obligations or to account properly for money in one's care

When he defaulted in his payments, the bank foreclosed on the car.

Law . to fail to appear in court.

Sports .

to fail to participate in or complete a match.

to lose a match by default.

to fail to perform or pay

to default a debt.

to declare to be in default, esp. legally

The judge defaulted the defendant.

Sports .

to fail to compete in (a scheduled game, race, etc.).

to lose by default.

Law . to lose by failure to appear in court.

noun

advantage , payment , perfection , satisfaction , success

verb

pay

noun

absence , blemish , blunder , dearth , defect , deficiency , delinquency , dereliction , disregard , error , fault , imperfection , inadequacy , insufficiency , lack , lapse , miss , neglect , nonpayment , offense , omission , overlooking , oversight , privation , shortcoming , slight , transgression , vice , weakness , wrongdoing

verb

bilk , defraud , dishonor , evade , fail , leave town , meet under arch , neglect , put on the cuff , rat * , repudiate , run out on , see in the alley , shirk , skate * , skip , skip out on , stiff * , swindle , welch , welsh , omit , blemish , delinquency , dereliction , failure , forfeit , imperfection , mistake , negligence , nonpayment , omission , slight , want