n.  债务违约，拖欠

n.  违约，未履行义务

n. 〔计算机等的〕默认状态，系统预设状态

n.  常规做法

• by default  默认情况下；因对手弃权[缺席]，因无其他参赛者〔而获胜〕；由于没有采取行动

• According to Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing company Kahuna, less than 15 percent of smartphone users ever bother to adjust their notification settings – meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to the app makers' every preset trigger. 默认手机的预设

• Apple's stance on these issues emerged post-Snowden, when the company started putting in place a series of technologies that, by default, make use of encryption (加密) to limit access to people's data.

  默认利用加密来限制他人访问用户数据

• Ecosystems free of species defined as exotic are, by default, considered the most natural.

• The company is in default on its loan agreement. 该公司拖欠偿还贷款。

• This way of working seems to be the default these days.

  如今，这种工作方式似乎成了常规做法。

BrE /əˈbɔːt/ ; NAmE /əˈbɔːrt/