Late or failing to pay adebt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
Fred isdelinquent in making his car payment.
Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled.
The company made a new effort to collectdelinquent payments.
1981 February 7, David Morris, “Money Troubles May Close WCAS”, inGay Community News, volume 8, number28, page 3:
The station's financial difficulties came to a head last week when the Internal Revenue Service had its bank accounts frozen as a result ofdelinquent taxes.
Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
She had the consolation of knowing that any offence given to her dignity could be avenged on thedelinquent who caused it, an act of justice which could not fail to be consolatory, since every one of her daughters had at times stood in stead of "guid King James's whipping-boy," when circumstances arose to disturb the equanimity of Lady Anne's imperious and irascible temper.
