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- noun One who is not a
delinquent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So far no one has uncovered evidence that banks kicked nondelinquent borrowers out of their homes, despite robo-signing and other sloppy paperwork.
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In the 1970s, Vaillant and his staff tracked down most of these nondelinquent boys — it took years — so that today the Harvard Study of Adult Development consists of two cohorts, the “Grant men” and the “Glueck men.”
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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Launched in 1939, the study had a control group of nondelinquent boys who grew up in similar circumstances — children of poor, mostly foreign-born parents, about half of whom lived in a home without a tub or a shower.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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Launched in 1939, the study had a control group of nondelinquent boys who grew up in similar circumstances — children of poor, mostly foreign-born parents, about half of whom lived in a home without a tub or a shower.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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In the 1970s, Vaillant and his staff tracked down most of these nondelinquent boys — it took years — so that today the Harvard Study of Adult Development consists of two cohorts, the “Grant men” and the “Glueck men.”
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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It said an additional 22% of current nondelinquent loans would default after this year.
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Speaking for millions of renters and nondelinquent borrowers, Mr. McConnell said that the vote "ensures that homeowners who pay their bills and follow the rules won't see an interest-rate hike at the whim of a bankruptcy judge."
Cramdown Slamdown 2009
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When passed, it would limit the amount of time that juveniles are detained for "nondelinquent status offenses," such as truancy, running away or violating curfew, alcohol and tobacco laws.
James Bell: One Size Does Not Fit All: A Slippery Slope to Increased Juvenile Incarceration 2009
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This ten-year study looked at the criminal careers of five hundred delinquent and five hundred nondelinquent white boys from disadvantaged backgrounds in Boston and reassessed them at ages seventeen, twenty-five, and thirty-one.
Eleanor Glueck. 2009
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The company also applied its published methodology updates to the nondelinquent portion of the transactions.
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