failure to pay
Skipping the bill
Failure to pay is the neglect or inability to render money owed when due.
The phrase appears in legal and financial contexts—loan agreements, insurance policies, lease terms—where it typically triggers penalties or termination: Failure to pay rent within five days constitutes breach of the lease.
It describes the act of not paying rather than the reason behind it.
- defaultPreset standard option
- delinquentFailing in duty
- overduePast expected arrival
- in arrearsOwing overdue money
- arrearsOverdue financial obligations
debt · late fee · collection · eviction · repossession · foreclosure · shut off · bounced · credit score · deadbeat · skip out · garnish · lien · bankrupt · creditor · invoice · bill · dunning
- contract breachbreach of contract, contract breach, material breach, non-performance, repudiation
- credit eventsloan default, restructuring, debt restructuring, repudiation, moratorium
- tax penaltiescivil penalty, criminal penalty, penalty notice, penalty waiver
- legal termstrial, legal, appeal, lawsuit, law
failure to paypayment
Fulfilling a financial obligation
full payment · timely payment · settlement · discharge of debt · remittance
failure to paycreditworthiness
Ability to repay debts
good standing · fiscal responsibility · solvency · financial integrity · good credit
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