English

Adjective
en-adj

1. late|Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.

#: Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
#: The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.

Derived terms
delinquency
juvenile delinquency
moral delinquency

Noun
en-noun

1. One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
2. obsolete a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.

Translations
trans-top|one who breaks the law
Finnish: rikollinen
German: Delinquent
trans-mid
Italian: delinquente m|f
Spanish: delincuente
trans-bottom

term applied to royalists

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