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Definitions: Delinquency |
DelinquencyNoun1. Nonpayment of a debt when due. 2. A tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities". 3. An antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "delinquency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Etymology: Delinquency \De*lin"quen*cy\, noun; plural Delinquencies. [Latin expression delinquentia, from delinquens.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Finance | The failure to pay an obligation when due. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: DelinquencySynonyms: dereliction (n), juvenile delinquency (n), willful neglect (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Guilt | Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break , capital crime, delictum. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Delinquency |
| English words defined with "delinquency": Delinquencies, dereliction ♦ juvenile delinquency ♦ Weapons of offense, willful neglect. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "delinquency": CHILD SUPPORT OFFICER ♦ delinquency rate, DIRECTOR, LAW ENFORCEMENT, DIRECTOR, REVENUE ♦ INSURANCE CLERK ♦ psychologist, clinica, PSYCHOLOGIST, DEVELOPMENTAL ♦ SOCIAL WORKER, DELINQUENCY PREVENTION, SUPERVISOR, CREDIT AND LOAN COLLECTIONS ♦ Waiters upon Providence. (references) |
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Children | Panama | Juvenile courts continue to report a high incidence of juvenile delinquency in major urban areas. (references) |
Lebanon | Juvenile delinquency is rising; many juveniles wait in ordinary prisons for trial and remain there after sentencing. (references) | |
Ethiopia | Some police officers have completed training on procedures for handling cases of child abuse and juvenile delinquency. (references) | |
Economic History | Chile | Street crime and delinquency continue to be an issue in Chile, therefore personal security products are also in demand. (references) |
Sweden | Sweden has today increasing problems with juvenile delinquency and gangs, 'smash and grab' robberies and organized criminality. (references) | |
Japan | Japan faces the same problems that confront urban industrialized societies throughout the world: overcrowded cities, congested highways, air pollution, and rising juvenile delinquency. (references) | |
Human Rights | Dominican Republic | The alleged objective of the roundups is to fight delinquency. (references) |
Trade | Uruguay | The delinquency rate is approximately 6 percent and the ratio of unpaid credit/overall credit in the private banking system is less than 2 percent. (references) |
Worker Rights | Morocco | In addition many citizens claim that having children working to learn a craft is better than having them live on the streets, where they might turn to juvenile delinquency, prostitution, or substance abuse. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | I propose that we make new efforts to control and prevent crime and delinquency. |
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| "Delinquency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Delinquency" is used about 178 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 178 | 23,220 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "delinquency": juvenile delinquency. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "delinquency": delinquency-is. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "delinquency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkelje (breaking, crushing, encroachment, impingement, infraction, infringement, invasion, irregularity, lap, obtrusion, offence, outrage, overlap, perambulation, squelcher, stamping, transgression, trespass, violation), kundërvajtje (default, infraction, offence, violation), gabim (balk, baulk, boob, delusion, error, fallacy, false step, fault, flub, frailty, gaffe, lapse, Lapsus, misdoing, Miss, misstep, mistake, slip, slip up, trip), faj (blame, buck, crime, fault, guilt, guiltiness, wrong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جنوحية, الدين المتأخر, إهمال (default, dereliction, disregard, easiness, forgetfulness, fribble, frowst, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, limbo, malpractice, neglect, negligence, omission, overlooking, remissive, remissness, slovenliness), إثم (debt, error, evil, guilt, guiltiness, iniquity, misdeed, offence, sin, transgression, viciousness, wrongdoing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вина (blame, criminality, fault, guilt, rap), неизплатен дълг (arrears), просрочен дълг, простъпка (fault, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, perpetration, transgression, trespass, wrongdoing), престъпление (crime, delict, fact, foul play, iniquity, misdeed, offence, outrage, transgression, wrongdoing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 少年犯罪. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zloèinnost, kriminalita (crime rate, criminality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kriminalitet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | misdadigheid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کوتاهی (Brevity, Compendium, Default), قصور (Debt, Default, Negligence, Shortcoming), تقصیر (Crime, Error, Guilt, Offense, Rap), تخلف (Infraction, Transgression, Trepass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rikollisuus (crime, criminality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | délinquance. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vergehen (be about, blame, crime, delinquencies, 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παράπτωμα (crime, offence, trespass), εγκληματικότητα (crime rate, criminality, feloniousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עברי ות (criminal, evildoing, transgression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kötelességmulasztás (dereliction of duty, infraction of duty, misprision, neglect of duty, nonfeasance), bűncselekmény (crime, felony, guilt), bűnözés (evil-doing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kegagalan tugas (defection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | delinquenza (criminality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 非行 (misconduct). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひ"う (aviation, introduction of poems at a poetry party, misconduct, thickening of the skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | loghtynid (blameableness, criminality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | lovovertredelse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elinquencyday delinquência (misdemeanor, misdemeanour). (various references) delincvenţã (criminality), delict (crime, delict, malpractice, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, trespass), infracţiune (breach, malfeasence, malpractice, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, trespass, violation, wrongdoing), crimã (crime, felony, homicide, maleficence, misdeed, murder, offence, outrage, removal, sin), abatere de la datorie. (various references) проступок (fault, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, shortcoming, sin), преступность (crime, criminality). (various references) delinkvencija. (various references) delincuencia. (various references) pliktförgätenhet (dereliction, dereliction of duty, neglect of duties), lagöverträdelse (delict, trespass), försumlighet (negligence), förseelse (error, lapse, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misfeasance, offence, offense, tort, wrongdoing), brottslighet (crime, criminality, culpability, delinquent, guilt). (various references) การกระทำผิ"ของเ"็กและเยาวชน (juvenile delinquency). (various references) suçluluk (criminality, culpability, guilt, guiltiness), suç (blame, caper, crime, criminality, culpability, delict, error, fault, felony, guilt, irregularity, job, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, rap, sin, transgression, wrong), kabahat (blame, demerit, fault, guilt, sin, wrongdoing), kötüye kullanma (abuse, deceit, embezzlement, exploitation, malfeasance, malversation, misuse), ihmal (carelessness, criminal neglect, disregard, failure, forgetfulness, inattention, neglect, negligence, omission, remissness, shortcoming), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, demerit, error, failing, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, imperfection, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness). (various references) упущення (balk, lapse, omission), злочинність (criminality, villainy), провина (blame, defalcation, error, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misconduct, offence, offense, peccancy, shortcoming, sin, transgression, wickedness, wrong doing), правопорушення (delict, misfeasance, offence, offense, transgression, trespass, wrong, wrong doing). (various references) tội lỗi (evil, sin), tội (offence, wrongdoing), sự phạm tội (criminality, offence, offending, sinfulness), sự phạm pháp sự chểnh mảng, món thuế không đúng kỳ hạn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Delinquency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delinquancy, delinquen, delinquens, delinquincy, deliquence, deliquency. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "delinquency" (pronounced duli"ngkwunsē) |
| 6 | -k w u n s ē | frequency, infrequency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, deficiency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, efficiency, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, hesitancy, immunodeficiency, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, inefficiency, infancy, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, sufficiency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-n-n-q-u-y" | |
-3 letters: equinely, leniency. | |
-4 letters: cliqued, cliquey, decline, include, leucine, needily, nuclein, nuclide, queenly, unlined. | |
-5 letters: ceiled, cinque, clique, cliquy, decile, dunlin, dynein, edenic, ennuye, equine, eyelid, indene, induce, leucin, linden, lineny, nicely, nuclei, nudely, nuncle, quince, undine, yeelin, yenned. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6C 69 6E 71 75 65 6E 63 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .-.. .. -. --.- ..- . -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01110001 01110101 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e l i n q u e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006C 0069 006E 0071 0075 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3871787580838771806991 |
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