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UK
/dˈɛdbiːt/
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[ US /ˈdɛdˌbit/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛdˌbit/ ]
NOUN
- someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
How To Use deadbeat In A Sentence
- The fix might be as simple as installing a controller to cut costs, increase prices, and hound deadbeat customers.
- Asset management companies set up by governments in Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand have mopped up the worst bad loans, unburdening banks by pulling the plug on deadbeat borrowers.
- The three-quarters of Montrealers without university degrees can be excused for feeling like deadbeats.
- Koizumi has argued that it will take three years of tough economic times to fix the banks, put deadbeat corporate borrowers out of business, and set the stage for a new period of growth.
- “Well, Star’s father would be what we call a deadbeat dad and yes, what he’s done is against the law,” she replied. Star
- This would have continued suspension of disbelief in two ways. 1) the daughter would have recognized him at the train station from old photographs or something 2) It would have made better sense that they had a connection later in the movie, rather than Shia Lebouf just being cool with finding out the man he knew as his father for years and years just wasn't, and now this old deadbeat is calling him "son. If I had written...Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- First I take offence to the use of the term deadbeat, yes there are those which believe that society owes them a living, but, there are also those who truely are down on their luck right now, while we send billions to foreign countrys to feed, house and educate their children we cant make sure our own have the same privilages. Undefined
- But eventually the show about a loving, professional, upbeat clan was eclipsed by domestic comedies about dysfunctional deadbeats, such as Roseanne, Married with Children and The Simpsons.
- Now, I ain't no deadbeat, but I've been a little low on cash lately, and when it came time to pay the bills this month, I had to do some tough prioritizing.
- They decided that since all the users were part of the ITP community, they would simply make it easy to track the deadbeats, with the threat of public broadcast of their names.