delinquent
See also: Delinquent and délinquent
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/
Adjective
delinquent (comparative more delinquent, superlative most delinquent)
- Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
- Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
- The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
- Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
Synonyms
- (late or failing to pay a debt): defaulting
Derived terms
- delinquency
- juvenile delinquent
- moral delinquent
Translations
late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation
Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation
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Noun
delinquent (plural delinquents)
- One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
- (obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:criminal
Translations
one who breaks the law
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Latin
Verb
dēlinquent
- third-person plural future active indicative of dēlinquō
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