default to something

Examples of defaulting

defaulting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This was done to prevent the participants from defaulting to the original verb as used in each problem statement.
The programmer can provide a list of numeric types to use for defaulting.
Whenever an agent is constrained, he should be indifferent between defaulting and not defaulting.
Reneging or defaulting become much less possible and carry many more far-reaching penalties for the government.
Second, the sovereignty status of countries limits the extent to which countries can be "punished" for defaulting.
It is then used to enable defaulting banks in developing countries to pay back international loans.
Our approach uses both defaulting mechanism and attribute grammars with semantic propagation rules.
The greatest positive surprise was that kind defaulting (section 3.1) could be handled in such a relatively straightforward way, and we had expected worse problems.
First, there was the question of the volume of dealings, and second, there was concern about the effects of defaulting clients.
Another option would be to require repayment by defaulting farmers, although that may not be feasible for small, poor farms.
Interest of 5 per cent per annum was paid on the loans, and there is no record of defaulting on these payments at all.
Re-negotiating the terms of the contract (as the defaulting server agent) in the negotiation module.
It is also essential that staff are proactive when patients do not attend for medication, and that they have clear guidance on a course of action for defaulting patients.
Non-assimilatory neutralisations, conversely, are described in terms of the removal or delinking of a specified feature, the result then ' defaulting' to the segment which is unspecified for that feature.
Kind defaulting is not only used for type variables in signatures, but also for type and class names.
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