delinquent
Example Sentences
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If they missed payments for three consecutive months, they were placed in forbearance so their loans wouldn’t become increasingly delinquent and mar their credit records.
More than three million federal student-loan borrowers recently fell into default status, meaning they haven’t made payments in more than 270 days, and many more were seriously delinquent on payments, according to Education Department data.
Is this place always a ghost town, or do they clear it out whenever one of their delinquents is going to show up so the regular people don’t have to mingle with the bad guys?
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“Get them as far back as you can, and keep paying perfectly. You don’t have to pay extra, but you can’t have anything be delinquent.”
From MarketWatch
The settlement specified that Iswarienko would hand over his photographs no later than Sept. 1, 2024, making him “14 months delinquent.”
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.