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
- fail to fulfill an obligation, especially to repay a loan or appear in court
- revert automatically to a preselected option
Usage: computing
Examples
- The company went bankrupt after several loan defaults.
- He defaults on his credit card payments every month.
- The software uses Arial as the default font.
- If you don’t choose a setting, the program defaults to automatic mode.
- The bank reported an increase in mortgage defaults.
- When the system crashes, it defaults to safe mode.
- She changed the default homepage on her browser.