[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["failure to act; inaction or neglect:They lost their best client by sheer default.", "Finance.failure to meet financial obligations, as when a borrower misses or stops making monthly loan payments:A default on your mortgage can lead to losing the house.", "Law.failure to perform an act or obligation legally required, especially to appear in court or to plead at a time assigned:The judge dismissed the suit for default of the defendant.", "Sports.failure to arrive in time for, participate in, or complete a scheduled game, race, etc.:So far the Cougars have had three losses, two wins, and one default.", "a person’s automatic or standard way of acting or responding; go-to or reflex:Her default is to argue about everything I say, unless she’s in a really good mood.", "lack ; want ; absence :For default of anything better, he took a job washing dishes.", "Computers.a value that a program or operating system assumes, or a course of action that a program or operating system will take, when the user or programmer specifies no overriding value or action."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["being a person’s automatic or standard action, response, etc.; go-to:Chocolate is my default choice for ice cream, but when I feel adventurous I’ll go for something more exotic.", "Computers.(of a value, action, etc.) preset or preselected, unless the user or programmer gives other input or instruction:The default contrast setting on this display is 50 percent."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to fail to meet financial obligations, such as payments on a loan, or to account properly for money in one's care:After he defaulted twice, the bank foreclosed on the car.", "to fail in fulfilling or satisfying an engagement, claim, or obligation:They said they would pick me up, but defaulted at the last minute.", "Law.to fail to appear in court:One of the key witnesses defaulted.", "Sports.to fail to participate in or complete a scheduled game, race, etc.:I only placed in that race because my chief rival defaulted.to lose a scheduled game, race, etc., by default.", "to fail to participate in or complete a scheduled game, race, etc.:I only placed in that race because my chief rival defaulted.", "to lose a scheduled game, race, etc., by default.", "to behave or respond in a certain way automatically, habitually, or by preference (usually followed byto):It seems that in your relationships you default to being a caregiver instead of a partner.", "Computers.(of a program or operating system) to assume a preset value or take a preselected action unless otherwise instructed by the user or programmer (usually followed byto):Your profile defaults to public unless you set the permissions to private."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to fail to perform or pay:to default a debt.", "to declare to be in default, especially legally:The judge defaulted the defendant.", "Law.to lose by failure to appear in court.", "Sports.to fail to compete in (a scheduled game, race, etc.).to lose by default.", "to fail to compete in (a scheduled game, race, etc.).", "to lose by default."]}]