{
    "term": "default",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "what happens or appears if you do not make any other choice or change, especially in a computer program",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The default is fifty lines."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The default option is to save your work every five minutes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What is your default browser?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "All my life, envy has been my default emotion."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions", "Computers"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "failure to do something that must be done by law, especially paying a debt",
            "sensetop": "in default (on something)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The company is in default on the loan.",
                    "contextForm": "in default (on something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mortgage defaults have risen in the last year."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Permission and obligation", "Crime and punishment"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a game or competition can be won by default if there are no other people, teams, etc. taking part",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He became world champion in 2007 by default."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "if something happens by default, it happens because you have not made any other decision or choices that would make things happen in a different way",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I became a teacher by default rather than by design."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "because of a lack of something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They accepted what he had said **in default of** any evidence to disprove it."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈfɔːlt//ˈdiːfɔːlt/",
                "audio": "de/default/default__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈfɔːlt//ˈdiːfɔːlt/",
                "audio": "de/default/default__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French defaut, from defaillir ‘to fail’, based on Latin fallere ‘disappoint, deceive’."
}