default

Definition:
1. Loss due to not showing up.
2. Act of failing to meet a financial obligation.
3. Loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid.
4. An option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified.
5. Fail to pay up.

Use 'default' in a sentence:

• 1. They accepted what he had said in default of any evidence to disprove it.
• 2. They fear I will default on any business loan I'm given.
• 3. He defaulted in the wrestling tournament.
• 4. Better than default, but not good enough.
• 5. The default value is the system start date and time.
• 6. At least one word is entered here by default.
• 7. The default option is to save your work every five minutes.
• 8. Malvolio becomes, in default of competition, the play's moral centre.
• 9. Apple's stance on these issues emerged post-Snowden, when the company started putting in place a series of technologies that, by default, make use of encryption to limit access to people's data.
• 10. Ecosystems free of species defined as exotic are, by default, considered the most natural.
• 11. In default of experts' help, we shall have to rely on our own efforts.
• 12. He appeared unimpressed; but then, unimpressed was his default state.
• 13. If Dubai defaults on its debts, it would be the largest sovereign default since Argentina in 2001.
• 14. I would rather pay the individuals than let the money go to the State by default.
• 15. They argue that governments should persuade us into making better decisionssuch as saving more in our pension plans — by changing the default options.
• 16. He defaulted in his payments on the loan.
• 17. Internet Explorer 10, the version due to appear with Windows 8, would have DNT as a default.
• 18. One school thinks that, even in cases of negative equity, most homeowners will not default if they can afford the payments.
• 19. Human nature being what it is, most people stick with default settings.
• 20. Unable to tell whether someone really objects to behavioral ads or whether they are sticking with Microsoft's default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway.
• 21. The corporation may be charged with default on its contract with the government.
• 22. The company is in default on the loan.
• 23. They argue that governments should persuade us into making better decisions—such as saving more in our pension plans—by changing the default options.
• 24. He lost the world title by default.
• 25. This is the default home page.
• 26. Mortgage defaults have risen in the last year.
• 27. A Study of the Structural Model of Corporate Bond's Default Probability.
• 28. If your network is extremely slow, you may think about decreasing your default in order to reduce the amount of packet fragmentation.
• 29. Defaults are certainly part of the solution.
• 30. Now, there are many methods of default diagnosis.
• 31. It's unclear if Microsoft will stop installing IE on Windows PCs by default once the company discontinues support for IE, although that would be likely.
• 32. Still, to this day IE still doesn't support extensions, isn't available on non-Windows devices and doesn't sync with other devices by default — all mainstays of Chrome and Firefox.
• 33. Spassky won the first game, and was awarded by the second by default, when Fischer failed to put in an appearance.
• 34. At the ubiquitous convenience stores throughout Japan, cashiers now ask if customers need chopsticks rather than sticking them into checkout bags by default.
• 35. The matter, which was a weighty one, was like to go against the English monarch by default.
• 36. Their wallpaper may be of their pet, selfie, parents, children, partner, current car/ dream car, favorite actor/ singer/ sportsperson, favorite Bible verse, a beautiful scenery or even the default wallpaper.
• 37. We can use the default method to find the test object.
• 38. By default, this table shows 10 rows.
• 39. If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on advertising, it has chosen an indirect method: there is no guarantee that DNT by default will become the norm.
• 40. According to Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing company Kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification settlings--meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to the app makers' every preset trigger.
• 41. The successor ( s) second in order shall inherit in default of any successor first in order.
• 42. On this screen, 256 colours is the default.
• 43. The default value of this register is an empty string.
• 44. My default mode is no longer to be a rush-aholic.
• 45. In 1998, there was the Russian default crisis and then there was some seize up of that maybe resembles what is happening now.
• 46. The first warning signals came in March when the company defaulted on its initial payment of £ 30 million.
• 47. Select the block of text and-click and choose Default Formatting.
• 48. The default setting on Windows Explorer will not show these files.
• 49. The default is usually the setting that most users would probably choose.
• 50. Death, not life, is the default state of cells.
• 51. The credit card business is down, and more borrowers are defaulting on loans.
• 52. When the driver accelerated, the vacuum was insufficient to run the intermittent mode and the wipers would default to high speed.
• 53. As we say on this home page here, by default, we anonomize you when you log into this bulletin board, whereby, you're all logged in as students.