noun
- failure to fulfill an obligation, especially to repay a loan or appear in court
- a preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism when no alternative is specified by the user or programmer
Usage: computing
verb
- to fail to fulfill an obligation, especially to repay a loan
- to revert automatically to a preselected option
Usage: computing
Examples
- The company went into default on its loan payments.
- The software will use the default settings unless you change them.
- Many homeowners defaulted on their mortgages during the recession.
- If you don’t specify a font, the program defaults to Times New Roman.
- The bank seized the property after the borrower’s default.
- Change the default password to something more secure.
- The system defaults to the last saved configuration.