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Overdue vs Delinquent - What's the difference?

overdue | delinquent |

As adjectives the difference between overdue and delinquent

is that overdue is late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need while delinquent is late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.

As a noun delinquent is

one who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.

overdue

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue . When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
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  • delinquent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
  • Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
    The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
  • Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
  • Synonyms

    * (late or failing to pay a debt) defaulting

    Derived terms

    * delinquency * juvenile delinquent * moral delinquent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
  • (obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.
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