English Dictionary

delinquent

/dɪˈlɪŋkwənt/

noun

One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes. / A person who has not paid their debts. / (historical, derogatory) A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).

The delinquent was caught stealing from the store.

意味（1）

One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes.

She had the consolation of knowing that any offence given to her dignity could be avenged on the delinquent who caused it, an act of justice which could not fail to be consolatory, since every one of her daughters had at times stood in stead of guid King James's whipping-boy, when circumstances arose to disturb the equanimity of Lady Anne's imperious and irascible temper.

意味（2）

A person who has not paid their debts.

意味（3）

(historical, derogatory) A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).