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deadbeat
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dead·beat 1  (ddbt) Slang
n.
1. One who does not pay one's debts.
2. A lazy person; a loafer.
adj.
Not fulfilling one's obligations or paying one's debts: a deadbeat dad.
dead·beat 2  (ddbt)
adj.
Having an indicator that stops without oscillation.
deadbeat
Noun
Informal a lazy or socially undesirable person
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Noun1.deadbeat - someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
defaulter
deadbeat dad - a father who willfully defaults on his obligation to provide financial support for his offspring
debitor, debtor - a person who owes a creditor; someone who has the obligation of paying a debt
deadbeat
noun (Informal), chiefly U.S., Canad. layabout, bum (informal) waster, lounger, piker Austral., N.Z. (slang) sponge (informal) parasite, drone, loafer, slacker (informal) scrounger (informal) skiver Brit. (slang) idler, freeloader (slang) good-for-nothing, sponger (informal) wastrel, bludger Austral., N.Z. (informal) cadger, quandong Austral. (slang)


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The lending lobby--Big Borrow-mongers--claims that it needs protections against deadbeats who file for bankruptcy without even trying to pay off their debts.
Congress favors credit industry over consumers by Saunders, Debra J. / Los Angeles Business Journal
These are imaginative tales, set along "Short Street" where junkies, drunks, deadbeats and worse are neighbors live alongside decent people struggling to survive and intractibly stubborn individuals.
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WASHINGTON - The federal government's decision to issue credit cards to employees for official travel has spawned a mountain of bad debts and a small army of deadbeats, Congress was told Tuesday.
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