Dictionary

delinquent en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.

Meanings

1. Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
   • Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
2. Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled.
   • The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
   • The station's financial difficulties came to a head last week when the Internal Revenue Service had its bank accounts frozen as a result of delinquent taxes. 1981 February 7, David Morris, “Money Troubles May Close WCAS”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 3:
3. Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense

Forms

Deriveds

juvenile delinquent · delinquently · predelinquent · delinquency · nondelinquent

Relateds

relinquish · relic · relict · derelict

Synonyms

defaulting (late or failing to pay a debt)

Translations (23)

da bagud med betaling (late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation) · he פורע־חוק (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · ru уклоня́ющийся от упла́ты (late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation) · de pflichtvernachlässigend (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · fa خلاف (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · cs delikventní (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · es delictivo (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · es delictuoso (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · ro întârziat (late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation) · de säumig (late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation) · da pligtforsømmende (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · da i restance (late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation) · ro neplătit (late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation) · he חורג (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · de rückständig (late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation) · es moroso (late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation) · he פושעני (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · de pflichtversäumend (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · es delincuente (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · ro neachitat (late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation) · he חורג מהחוק (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · de straffällig (Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation) · nl in gebreke blijvend (late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation)

delinquent en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.

Meanings

1. One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes.
   • She had the consolation of knowing that any offence given to her dignity could be avenged on the delinquent who caused it, an act of justice which could not fail to be consolatory, since every one of her daughters had at times stood in stead of "guid King James's whipping-boy," when circumstances arose to disturb the equanimity of Lady Anne's imperious and irascible temper. 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 269:
2. A person who has not paid their debts.
3. (derogatory, historical) A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).

Forms

Synonyms

cavalier

Translations (26)

ja 下手人 (one who breaks the law) · cmn 犯法者 (one who breaks the law) · it delinquente (one who breaks the law) · ro delincvent (one who breaks the law) · es pishtaco (one who breaks the law) · fa خلافکار (one who breaks the law) · he פורע־חוק (one who breaks the law) · bg нарушител (one who breaks the law) · ja 非行者 (one who breaks the law) · fa خاطی (one who breaks the law) · fr délinquant (one who breaks the law) · ca delinqüent (one who breaks the law) · de Straffälliger (one who breaks the law) · bg виновник (one who breaks the law) · fa متخلف (one who breaks the law) · id anak nakal (one who breaks the law) · es delincuente (one who breaks the law) · pl delikwent (one who breaks the law) · ru правонаруши́тель (one who breaks the law) · de Delinquent (one who breaks the law) · el παραβατικός (one who breaks the law) · fi rikollinen (one who breaks the law) · pt delinquente (one who breaks the law) · ru правонаруши́тельница (one who breaks the law) · de Krimineller (one who breaks the law) · tl dalinsil (one who breaks the law)

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