Overdue vs Delinquent - What's the difference?
overdue | delinquent |
Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
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Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
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.
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)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.}}
delinquent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
- The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.