0 past simple and past participle of default
1 to fail to do something, such as pay a debt, that you legally have to do:
People who default on their mortgage repayments may have their home repossessed.
The version of the compiled module has defaulted to its hash-generated name.
In all cases, however, the outside lender is never defaulted upon.
He improved once more for a short while, but "defaulted" again in the taking of his medications and vanished from sight.
The patient defaulted until the age of 17, when progressive decrease in exercise tolerance was noted.
Employees could then be automatically defaulted into a balanced fund based on their age, unless they actively select some other investment portfolio.
Since the kind system is monomorphic, kinds are defaulted in these situations.
Over 500,000 families defaulted on their mortgages and lost their homes between 1930 and 1932.
These type variables can be defaulted independently for each signature, except for the class variable, which already is associated with a kind in the type environment.