What is "defaulted"

Usage examples of "defaulted".

But after the Ho-Pak'disaster,' the news that Struan's have defaulted will send his stock plummeting.

It was a key Leninistic policy to pay particular attention to Western banks that were at the core of Western strength, to infiltrate them to the highest level, to encourage and assist others to foment disaster against Western currencies but at the same time to borrow capital from them to the utter maximum, whatever the interest, the longer the loan the better, making sure that no Soviet ever defaulted on any repayment, whatsoever the cost.

If we have time, twenty years at the most twenty by that time our debt will be 60, 70 billions and as far as they're concerned we'll still be a triple-A risk, never having defaulted on a payment ever… in war, peace or depression.

A switch threw somewhere and she defaulted to Superintendent Frankland, the unshockable copper, the persona that could cope with this.

The air was thick with dust that he’d kicked up by moving around, and he’d defaulted automatically to breathing through his nose again.

Her mind defaulted to securing the scene for forensics and informing next of kin.

But after the Ho-Pak 'disaster,' the news that Struan's have defaulted will send his stock plummeting.

If we have time, twenty years-at the most twenty-by that time our debt will be 60, 70 billions and as far as they're concerned we'll still be a triple-A risk, never having defaulted on a payment ever.

At least the pilot had defaulted to the kind of optimistic, caretaking mode Chekov could depend on to help rather than hinder the coming walk.

He tried to remember the name of the leggy, sweet-faced non-sheep the colonists had defaulted to when dust and radiation took its toll on their original ungulates, but could only come up with the apparently appropriate word guano, which he knew wasn’t right.

But the more Chekov protested, the more Baldwin persisted, and Chekov finally just defaulted to not responding unless Baldwin addressed him by his proper name.

The rifle slipped out of his grip twice before he finally defaulted to throwing it up the hill ahead of him, meeting it on his way up while it slid back down, then pitching it uphill again.

If they defaulted, the Skybolts' reputationalready suffering from the defeat in Menmellithwould be decimated.

Then during the post-meet mixer and dance Pemulis's defaulted opponent ate from the hors d' oeuvres table without using utensils or at one point even hands, did a disco number when there wasn't any music going, and was finally heard telling the Port Washington Headmaster's wife that he'd always wanted to do her from behind.