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单词 deadbeat
释义
deadbeat
noun[C]
mainlyUSinformal
uk
/ˈded.biːt/us
/ˈded.biːt/
apersonwho is notwillingtowork, does notbehavein aresponsibleway, and does notfitintoordinarysociety:
游手好闲的人，二流子
He's arealdeadbeat who's never had aproperjob.他真是游手好闲，从来没有干过一份正经的工作。
[as form of address]Come off it, deadbeat, you're never going to getanywhere.别说了，懒鬼，你永远也不会有什么出息。
apersonorcompanythat is notwillingtopaydebtsoracceptresponsibility
赖账者；赖账的公司
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Laziness and lazy people
  • bludger
  • bone idleidiom
  • bum around
  • CBA
  • clock-watcher
  • indolent
  • indolently
  • layabout
  • lazily
  • laziness
  • phone in
  • shiftless
  • shirker
  • skiver
  • slacker
  • time-server
  • time-serving
  • unambitious
  • vegetable
  • work-shy
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Borrowers & lenders
deadbeat
adjective[before noun]
mainlyUSinformal
uk
/ˈded.biːt/us
/ˈded.biːt/
notwillingtopaydebtsoracceptresponsibilities:
赖账的
The newlawisaimedat deadbeatlandlordswhoowe$22 million.这部新法律针对的是那些欠下2200万美元却赖着不还的土地所有者。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Borrowers & lenders
  • bondholder
  • borrower
  • creditor
  • debtor
  • financier
  • guarantor
  • lender
  • loan shark
  • moneylender
  • mortgagee
  • pawnbroker
  • usurer
(Definition ofdeadbeatfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

deadbeat| American Dictionary

deadbeat
noun[C]
us
/ˈded·bit/
someone whoowesmoneyand does notpayit, or someone whoavoidsdoingwork
(Definition ofdeadbeatfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

deadbeat| Business English

deadbeat
noun[C]
USinformal
uk
/ˈdedbiːt/us
apersonwhotriestoavoidpayingmoneythat theyowe:
Ikeepremindingmymortgagecompanythat I'm not a deadbeat.

deadbeat

adjective[before noun]
Thewatercompanyhasthreatenedtoshutoff thesupplyto deadbeatcustomerswhorefusetopaytheirbills.
(Definition ofdeadbeatfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdeadbeat

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He was adeadbeat, pure and simple.
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Thedeadbeat2:52 (bonus track) 16.
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With these two objectives, we aim to achieve adeadbeatcontrol response.
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The implication was clearly that the deadbeats are the hereditary peers.
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I ask him to withdraw the word "deadbeats".
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Still left to consider was the case of misplaced elements, deadbeats, those who neither studied nor worked.
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My amendment calls for schools to point them to a better way—not to become the absent fathers, thedeadbeatdads of the future.
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I have no doubt that there aredeadbeatmums, too, but in this country the main problem is families without fathers—and families need fathers.
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He remarked how agreeable it was to find a nationalised industry being attacked for aggressive marketing and not for being a sort of clapped-outdeadbeaton the floor.
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He is adeadbeatalcoholic, drug addict, and morally deficient freeloader who relies on his children to barely get by.
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Herb's only real skill is knowing how to collect money fromdeadbeatclients, often by blackmailing them.
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As a counterpoint, men are most often portrayed as cruel husbands ordeadbeatfathers.
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Though he can't land the big accounts, he displays a remarkable talent of collecting fromdeadbeatclients.
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Her dad's adeadbeatwho walked out when she was five, and her mom runs off with would-be husbands repeatedly.
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They frowned on heavy drinking, gambling, and (what today are called)deadbeatdads.
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