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The gap between what you owed and what you got around to.
means Delinquency is a failure to do what duty or law required, especially by letting it slide past the deadline.
from From Latin delinquere, 'to fail' or 'to do wrong' — built from de- (completely) plus linquere (to leave). The same linquere shows up in 'relinquish.' So a delinquent is, at root, someone who has simply left a duty behind rather than carried it through.
- origin
- Latin for leaving something undone
- credit use
- payment missed by thirty days or more
- juvenile sense
- crime rebranded as a phase
- irony
- the fee for lateness arrives promptly