We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of defaulting in English
Failure to meet the legal obligations of a loan (e.g. by suspending payments)
Failure to do something required by law (e.g. pay a debt or appear in legal proceedings)
Related terms
Usage of defaulting in English
1
That should allow Greece to avoid defaulting on its debt this year.
2
One payment only allowed it five days to make good before defaulting.
3
National power utility, Eskom, is determined to recoup costs from defaulting municipalities.
4
Investors would only take the risk of Greece defaulting on interest payments.
5
That would put the nation at risk of defaulting on its debt.
6
So they retained the rights, rather than those defaulting to the BBC.
7
It was a strange few days because three guys ended up defaulting.
8
Eskom is frustrated with the evasive manoeuvres employed by the defaulting municipalities.
9
Even a defaulting manager would scarcely seem to warrant so much zeal.
10
Lock moved the mouse and it disappeared, defaulting to a log-in screen.
11
That's probably partly the result of borrowers defaulting on home loans.
12
This morning, Mr Bruton also spoke out against talk of defaulting on debt.
13
Like Honeycutt, borrowers often learn the hard way that defaulting triggers serious repercussions.
14
The new rules also restrict associates of owners of defaulting companies.
15
That would help the company avoid defaulting on its debt and risking bankruptcy.
16
California Resources Corp also filed for Chapter 11 after defaulting on interest payments.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Translations for defaulting
Russian
Catalan
Defaulting through the time
Defaulting across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common