Defaulter

Definition: Defaulter

Defaulter

Noun

1. Someone who fails to make a required appearance in court.

2. Someone who fails to meet a financial obligation.

3. A contestant who forfeits a match.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "defaulter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonym: Defaulter

Bad Man

Rou_, rake; Sadist; skeesicks, skeezix; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog; rounder; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal.

Debt

Debtor, debitor; mortgagor; defaulter; borrower.

Nonpayment

Bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher, stag, defaulter, levanter.

Thief

Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter.

Crosswords: Defaulter

The Defaulter (1967)

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

Expression using "defaulter": defaulter book. Additional references.

Albanian

shpërdorues (peculator, waster), person që nuk plotëson zotime, person që nuk paraqitet. (various references)

Arabic 

‏المختلس. (various references)

Bulgarian 

неплатежоспособно лице, злоупотребител (misuser). (various references)

Danish

abonnent,der ikke betaler. (various references)

Dutch

wanbetaler (bad payer). (various references)

Finnish

maksun laiminlyöjä, kavaltaja (embezzler, traitor). (various references)

French

qui n'acquitte pas ses dettes, abonné défaillant. (various references)

German

zahlungsunfähiger Teilnehmer, sträfling (convict, prisoner), Schuldner (debtor, debtors), säumiger zahler, säumiger Teilnehmer, säumige, restant (slow line), nichtantretender spieler, nichtantretende spielerin. (various references)

Greek 

ένοχοσ παραπτώματοσ, παραβάτησ (delinquent, infinger, offender, transgressor, trespasser, violator, wrong doer), ερημοδικών, ελλειματίασ, αφερέγγυοσ (insolvent). (various references)

Hebrew 

עברין (culprit, delinquent, malefactor, malfeasant, miscreant, offender, sinner, transgressor). (various references)

Hungarian

tárgyalásról távolmaradó fél, tárgyaláson meg nem jelenő, szobafogságra ítélt, szerzõdésszegõ, szószegõ, szószegő (perfidious, truthless), sikkasztó (embezzler, peculator, scrounge, scrounger), kaszárnyafogságra ítélt, kötelezettségét nem teljesítő, kötelezettségét megszegő, kötelezettségét elmulasztó, késedelmesen fizető személy, fizetésképtelen személy. (various references)

Italian

debitore moroso, imputato contumace, abbonato inadempiente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

未納者 (person in arrears). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

みのうしゃ (person in arrears). (various references)

Korean 

군규위반자. (various references)

Manx

loghtagh (bad, bad incorrect, blameable, blameworthy, culpable, defective, delinquent, fault-finding, faulty, illgotten, iniquitous, offending, vicious), lheamyssagh (blemished, defective, different, imperfect). (various references)

Pig Latin

efaulterday.(various references)

Portuguese

delinquente (delinquent, law-offender, offender, transgressor, wrongdoer), defraudador (embezzler), refratário (absentee, conchy, refractory, unamenable), réu (culprit, defendant, delinquent, respondent), infrator (breaker, lawbreaker, malfeasant, transgressor, violator), contumaz (contumacious, obstinate, refractory, stubborn), assinante faltoso. (various references)

Romanian

delincvent (culprit, delinquent, evil doer, wrongdoer), defraudator (defrauder, embezzler), persoanã care nu s-a prezentat în instanţã. (various references)

Russian 

неплательщик (deadbeat). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neplatiša. (various references)

Spanish

desfalcador (embezzler), delincuente (culprit, delinquent, felon, felonious, gangsman, gangster, malfeasant, offender, thug), moroso (defaulting, overdue, slow, slow payer, sluggish), abonado incumplidor. (various references)

Swedish

tredskande part, försumlig person, förskingrare (embezzler, peculator). (various references)

Turkish

yerinde bulunmayan kimse, gaip (the unseen), emanet parayı yiyen kimse, borcunu ödemeyen kimse, askeri suçu olan asker. (various references)

Ukrainian

розтратник (embezzler, peculator), той, хто не викону�" своїх зобов'язань, неплатник, банкрут (bankrupt). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người vỡ nợ (bankrupt), người thụt két (defalcator), người không trả nợ đúng kỳ hạn người tham ô. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "defaulter": defaulters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Defaulter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defaute, desfoutre. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: deflater, faltered, featured, reflated.

-2 letters: alerted, altered, dareful, default, deflate, draftee, faulted, feature, federal, ferulae, feruled, reflate, refutal, refuted, related, tearful, treadle.

-3 letters: afreet, artful, aulder, dafter, dartle, deafer, dealer, defeat, deflea, defter, delate, derate, dueler, earful, elated, elater, eluate, eluder, eluted, falter, fardel, feared, feater, felted, ferula, ferule, feudal, flared, fluted, fluter.

+1 letter: defaulters.

+3 letters: reformulated, ultrarefined.

+4 letters: preformulated, tetrafluoride, ultrararefied, underinflated.

+5 letters: fraudulentness, tetrafluorides.