default
C1UK /dɪˈfɔːlt/US /dɪˈfɔːlt/
Meaning
noun
what happens or appears if you do not make any other choice or change, especially in a computer program
“The default is fifty lines.”
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“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you fail by default.”
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“Her default position toward me, as an African, was a kind of patronizing, well-meaning pity.”
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