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DELINQUENCIES

Definition: DELINQUENCIES

DELINQUENCIES

Plural

1. Of Delinquency

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DELINQUENCIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)



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Crosswords: DELINQUENCIES

Specialty definitions using "DELINQUENCIES": real estate mortgage investment conduit, REVENUE AGENT. (references)
Etymologies containing "DELINQUENCIES": Delinquency. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: DELINQUENCIES

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Costa Rica

The Costa Rican banking system is generally sound, though weak economic performance has increased the rate of loan delinquencies of the state-owned banks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DELINQUENCIES

"DELINQUENCIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DELINQUENCIES" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%12101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: DELINQUENCIES

Language Translations for "DELINQUENCIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Vergehen (be about, blame, crime, delinquency, die, die away, elapse, fade, fading, fault, go by, guilt, malfeasance, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misdoing, offense, pass, pass away, pass by, passing, slip away, swelter, to pass off, wear off). (various references)

   

Italian

  

trascorrere (elapse, go by, lapse, malfeasance, offence, pass, spend). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elinquenciesday

   

Spanish

  

delito (crime, felony, go by, malfeasance, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, pass). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "DELINQUENCIES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "DELINQUENCIES" (pronounced duli"ngkwunsēz)
7-k w u n s ē zfrequencies.
5-u n s ē zagencies, competencies, constituencies, contingencies, currencies, deficiencies, dependencies, discrepancies, efficiencies, emergencies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, malignancies, pregnancies, presidencies, redundancies, tendencies, transparencies, vacancies.
4-n s ē zfancies, inconsistencies, residencies.
3-s ē zaccuracies, archdiocese, autopsies, bankruptcies, biopsies, bureaucracies, candidacies, conspiracies, controversies, courtesies, crises, cruces, delicacies, democracies, diagnoses, embassies, epilepsies, fallacies, fantasies, galaxies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inadequacies, intricacies, jealousies, legacies, maxis, mercies, misdiagnoses, nazis, neuroses, oases, patsies, pharmacies, policies, posses, privacies, prognoses, prophecies, prostheses, proxies, taxis, theses.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: DELINQUENCIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-q-s-u"

-3 letters: deliquesce, leniencies, unlicensed.

-4 letters: indulines, leniences, queenside, sequenced, sequinned, squinnied.

-5 letters: declines, incensed, inclined, inclines, includes, induline, indulins, lenience, leucines, licensed, licensee, nucleins, nuclides, quinines, selenide, sequence, sequined, sideline, silenced, unsliced.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DELINQUENCIES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 45 4C 49 4E 51 55 45 4E 43 49 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    .-..    ..    -.    --.-    ..-    .    -.    -.-.    ..    .    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000101 01001100 01001001 01001110 01010001 01010101 01000101 01001110 01000011 01001001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#81 &#85 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#73 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 004C 0049 004E 0051 0055 0045 004E 0043 0049 0045 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38394643485155394837433953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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