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.
