default
/dɪˈfɔːlt/ nounDefinition
› [no plural] what exists or happens usually if no changes are made
by default › If something happens by default, it happens only because something else does not happen: No one else stood in the election, so he won by default.
default adjective [always before noun] › The default font size is 10.(Definition of default noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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