- (especially of young people or their behaviour尤指青年人或其行为) tending to commit crimes有违法倾向的
- delinquent teenagers不良青少年
Topics Crime and punishmentc2 - (North American English, finance金融) having failed to pay money that is owed拖欠债务的;欠债未还的
- a delinquent borrower欠债未还的借款人
- (North American English, finance金融) (of a sum of money款项) not having been paid in time到期未付的
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin delinquent- ‘offending’, from the verb delinquere, from de- ‘away’ + linquere ‘to leave’.