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delinquency Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 behaviour, especially of a young person, that is is illegal or not acceptable to most people:
- There is a high rate of juvenile delinquency in this area.
- His past delinquencies have made it hard for him to get a job.
1 a situation in which borrowed money is not paid back as agreed:
- The consumer loan delinquency rate has increased 33 percent.
2 illegal or unacceptable behavior:
- efforts to combat juvenile delinquency
3 a situation in which tax or borrowed money is not paid or paid back when it should be:
- The consumer loan delinquency rate has increased 33%.
- mortgage/tax delinquency

The whole of the miners in this country suffer because of the delinquencies of a few.
We all want to reduce juvenile delinquencies, whether we are magistrates, probation officers or barristers.
I, unfortunately, know that past delinquencies on the part of bodies of that kind are costing hundreds of thousands of pounds today.
The traders have had to pay for all the delinquencies of the landlords in the past.
I think that perhaps they exaggerated the delinquencies.
I have stated with great frankness the full extent of our delinquencies.
I am rather inclined to agree with the last speaker as to the shades between the two delinquencies.
Does this mean that a progressive local authority will be penalised because of the delinquencies of other local authorities?