judgement by default

1. 1.

   a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court)

   Synonymsdefault judgmentdefault judgementjudgment by default

   Broaderjudgment

   law

Questions about judgement by default

What does judgement by default mean?

judgement by default means "a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant defaults (fails to appear in court)".

What is another word for judgement by default?

Close synonyms include default judgment, default judgement, judgment by default. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is judgement by default a common word?

judgement by default is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.