Crossword clues for defaulter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Defaulter \De*fault"er\, n.
One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called.
One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.
Wiktionary
n. one who fails to fulfill an obligation or perform a task, especially a legal or financial one.
WordNet
n. someone who fails to make a required appearance in court
someone who fails to meet a financial obligation [syn: deadbeat]
a contestant who forfeits a match
Usage examples of "defaulter".
Shaw, the frozen defaulter soldier began to move, slowly but inexorably.
He cried out an incoherent protest as the defaulter took aim and fired.
The bullets rattled out, their thunder shredding the air, and the defaulter twitched backwards, his uniform tearing and his skin rupturing.
The defaulter representative is due to arrive shortly for the exchange of contracts.
But as soon as the defaulter representative arrives, he will be infected.
Neither the Plutocrats nor the Defaulters have made any gains for over a hundred years.
Bragg leaned into his seat, picturing the defaulters stumbling into the snow and mud, oblivious to their fate.
The defaulters were out there, advancing through the gloom, and every minute could bring a fresh AT bombardment.
The next day, they get an intelligence report that the defaulters have abandoned sector three.
Before his departure for Lombardy, Chaucer -- still holding his post in the Customs -- selected two representatives or trustees, to protect his estate against legal proceedings in his absence, or to sue in his name defaulters and offenders against the imposts which he was charged to enforce.
We hear not of any frauds discovered, or of defaulters punished, or of grievances redressed.
Uncle Miles and Aunt Martha, Dinny thought he would wait until these unctuous defaulters had had time to concoct some ingenious explanation.
In other words, the human nature of the man was dragged to the school of its truancy by circumstances, for him to learn the commonest of sums done on a slate, in regard to payment of debts and the unrelaxing grip of the creditor on the defaulter.
Uncle Fenelon, that you believe the author of The Sybarites to be a defaulter?
Robot clerks tick off the fines paid and send out summonses to defaulters.