Collocations for "default"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "default" in context.
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default
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [financial, mortgage, payment] default
- [sheer, pure, mindless] default
- is [facing, heading for] financial default
- the [country, family] is in default
- the [country] was forced into default (by)
- the defaults [amount to, total] [$5 million]
- faces defaults [amounting to] [$5 million]
- the [property, house] was repossessed [following, on] default
- try to [prevent, avoid] default
- [need to, must] avoid defaults (at all costs)
- [repair, discard, recall, report] factory defaults
- [progressed, qualified] due to the opponent's default
- [won, qualified] by default
- is the default for this [computer, device, network, printer]
- [change, set] the defaults
- revert (back) to the defaults
- has become the default for [adults, teenagers, social media]
- the setting defaults to [the previous value, 0]
- defaulted on his [payment, loans, debts]
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