defaulter, deadbeat
(noun) someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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deadbeat (plural deadbeats)
(pejorative) A lazy and/or irresponsible person who is often unemployed, often depending upon wealthy or otherwise financially independent people for support.
A person who defaults on debts.
• (lazy person): see idler
• (person who defaults on debts): shirker, welcher
deadbeat (not comparable)
(of an instrument) having a damped needle that stops without oscillation
defaulting on one's debts
defeated or exhausted
(pejorative) lazy or irresponsible
dead tired
Source: Wiktionary
Dead"beat`, a. (Physics)
Definition: Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation. Deadbeat escapement. See under Escapement.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 January 2025
(noun) a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
