1 (especially of young people or their behaviour) showing a tendency to commit crimes:
delinquent teenagers
2 (AmE, finance) having failed to pay money that is owed:
a delinquent borrower
3 (AmE, finance) (of a sum of money) not having been paid in time:
a delinquent loan
delinquent noun-see also JUVENILEDELINQUENT
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for delinquent is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is delinquent a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, delinquent is tagged as adjective.
Does delinquent appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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