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defaulter

[dih-fawl-ter] / dɪˈfɔl tər /


NOUN
delinquent
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That is nearly 2½ years older than the profile of a student-loan defaulter before the pandemic, according to Federal Reserve Bank of New York research published Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Five years after becoming Africa's first Covid-era debt defaulter, Zambia is seeing a dramatic turnaround in fortunes as major powers vie for access to its vast reserves of copper.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

It’s my understanding that the defaulter put down $2,000 and my friend cosigned for him to borrow the rest.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 29, 2025

It's a serial defaulter and its sovereign bonds are again trading at "distressed" levels, or a deep discount to their face value.

From Reuters ● Nov. 17, 2022

One of the city's most brilliant and most trusted young business men was a defaulter to the extent of thousands of dollars, and he was gone.

From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman




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