default judgment
(also default judgement) noun [C or U]Definition
› LAW a decision by a court of law against someone who does not appear in court or fails to do something else that they should do: The record company won by default judgment after the other party failed to respond.
(Definition of default judgment noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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