(finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
He failed to make payments on time, and he is now indefault.
You may cure thisdefault by paying the full amount within a week.
(finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
The deadline has passed, so the debt is now indefault.
(electronics,computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
A loss incurred by failing to compete.
The team's three losses include onedefault.
A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
The man became the leader of the group as adefault.
2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, inGuardian[1]:
One of the darlings of the early vegetarian movement (particularly in its even sadder form, the cutlet), it was on the menu at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium [sic], and has since become thedefault Sunday option for vegetarians – and a default source of derision for everyone else.
2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, inJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,→DOI, page 6:
Overall the signage at NIE has the appearance being a top-down artefact driven by institutional policy with English set as thedefault language.
(often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
If you don't specify a number of items, thedefault is 1.
If you refuse to wear a proper uniform, you will not be allowed to compete and willdefault this match.
(ambitransitive,computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
If you don't specify a color, itdefaults to red.
2002, Tony Martin, Dominic Selly,Visual Basic .NET at Work: Building 10 Enterprise Projects, page346:
Itdefaults your application to Windows authentication mode, and if you want to use forms mode, you can just change it in the authentication section of the file.
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
