0 present 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.
This was done to prevent the participants from defaulting to the original verb as used in each problem statement.
The programmer can provide a list of numeric types to use for defaulting.
Whenever an agent is constrained, he should be indifferent between defaulting and not defaulting.
Reneging or defaulting become much less possible and carry many more far-reaching penalties for the government.
Second, the sovereignty status of countries limits the extent to which countries can be "punished" for defaulting.
It is then used to enable defaulting banks in developing countries to pay back international loans.
Our approach uses both defaulting mechanism and attribute grammars with semantic propagation rules.
The greatest positive surprise was that kind defaulting (section 3.1) could be handled in such a relatively straightforward way, and we had expected worse problems.