delinquency

n., pl., -cies.

1. Juvenile delinquency.
2. Failure to do what law or duty requires.
3. An offense or a misdemeanor; a misdeed.
4. A debt or other financial obligation on which payment is overdue.

adj.
Of or relating to juvenile delinquency: delinquency problems.

Failure to pay an obligation when due. Consumer installment loans are normally considered delinquent if two consecutive payments are missed; an Open-End Credit account, such as a bank credit card, is often treated as a delinquent account if a payment is not received within the allowed 15- to 25-day grace period. A delinquent loan payment is subject to a Late Charge penalty and can be noted on the borrower's credit report as a past due payment. Loans with more than two missing payments (60 to 90 days past due) are regarded as seriously delinquent and debt collection efforts are initiated to recover the amount due.

noun

Nonperformance of what ought to be done: default, dereliction, failure, neglect, omission. Law nonfeasance. See do/not do.

n

Definition: misconduct
Antonyms: dutifulness, good behavior

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Antisocial or illegal acts, commonly performed by young males. See also football hooliganism.

Quotes:

"Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?" - William Shakespeare

"He that seeks trouble never misses." - English Proverb

"Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity." - Rudyard Kipling

"We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible." - Jean Genet

"Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery." - John Cheever

"Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy." - Anthony Burgess

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - forseelse, mindre lovovertrædelse, forkastelighed, pligtforsømmelse, forfalden gæld, forfaldne skatter
adj. - småkriminel

Nederlands (Dutch)
criminaliteit, vergrijp

Français (French)
n. - délinquance, délit, (US, Fin) défaillance, défaut de paiement
adj. - délinquant, (US, Fin) défaillant, arriéré, impayé, échu

Deutsch (German)
n. - Straffälligkeit, Kriminalität
adj. - straffällig, verbrecherisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πταίσμα, παράπτωμα, εγκληματικότητα (ανηλίκων)

Italiano (Italian)
insolvenza, delitto, mora, delinquenza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - delinqüência (f)

Русский (Russian)
правонарушение, преступление

Español (Spanish)
n. - delito, culpa, delincuencia
adj. - delincuente

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - brottslighet, förseelse

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
行为不良, 错失, 行为不良的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 行為不良, 錯失
adj. - 行為不良的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 근무 태만, 범행, 체납금
adj. - 체납의, 태만의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 非行, 犯罪, 不履行, 怠慢, 過失

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) جنحه ( جرم ليس من نوع خطير) وبخاصه المرتكبه من الشباب, تقصير, دين استحق دفعه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮עבירה, עבריינות‬
adj. - ‮מאופיין בנטייה לביצוע פשעים ,בייחוד זעירים (בד"כ ע"י צעירים)‬

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