deadbeat
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deadbeat
someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
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Deadbeat
(Physics) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
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Making successive movements with intervals of rest and no recoil; free from oscillatory movement. -
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A dead-beat escapement. -
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deadbeat
See dead beat , under beat, n.
Groups challenge process of jailing deadbeat parents. timesfreepress.com
Senate race is too close to call and so is the argument about who is the bigger deadbeat . courant.com
It was a memorable publicity campaign, the state's top deadbeat parents displayed most-wanted-style on a poster, with the amount they owed their children emblazoned beneath a mug shot. enterprisenews.com
Deadbeat bosses in Alberta will now be outed on a new government website if they don't pay their employees. globalpost.com
My Daughter's Deadbeat "Gamer" Boyfriend Is Living Off Of Us – Daily Dilemma. gna.com
Too bad some county officials don't care about deadbeat citizens paying their fines. acotrib.com
Bitter Mothers Are Just as Bad as Deadbeat Dads. essence.com
Digging out from damage caused by 'deadbeat' husband. chicagotribune.com
Walsh's son talks about 'deadbeat dad' ads. nwherald.com
Senate race is too close to call and so is the argument about who is the bigger deadbeat. courant.com
"Deadbeat Summer" by Neon Indian. kalw.org
Deadbeat' Illinois serves as a warning for Washington. columbian.com
The dictionary defines "deadbeat" as someone who deliberately avoids paying their bills. columbian.com
Deadbeat dads targeted at casinos. standard.net
As a Social Security-collecting 63-year-old, I really thought it was not too much to hope for that I could finish my life without ever being classified as a deadbeat. lajollalight.com
A geometric generalization of the discrete-time linear deadbeat control problem is studied.
Deadbeat control: construction via sets
The proposed method to generate a deadbeat tracker for a given nonlinear system is constructive and makes use of sets that can be computed iteratively.
Deadbeat control: construction via sets
For demonstration, derivations of deadbeat feedback law and tracker dynamics are provided for various example systems.
Deadbeat control: construction via sets
In this paper we present a procedure to construct a deadbeat tracker from system (3) provided that certain conditions (Assumption 1 and Assumption 2) hold.
Deadbeat control: construction via sets
The following criterion, known as Popov-Belevitch-Hautus (PBH) test, is an elegant tool for checking (deadbeat) controllability.
Deadbeat control: construction via sets
We were born to that, and most of us would feel like deadbeats if we were doing nothing. "The Shuttle" by
Can't see why the bosses let two deadbeats like you and your partner have the contract! "The Girl From Keller's" by
I'm a social deadbeat. "V. V.'s Eyes" by
The man's been a deadbeat for years. "Class of '29" by
You are a hypocrite and a deadbeat. "An Arkansas Planter" by
The bartender, accepting the situation as generally inclusive, put his hands up along with his deadbeat patrons. "Trail's End" by
If the deadbeat who made the deal with me wants it back, all he has to do is to produce the money. "The Gold Trail" by
A deadbeat makes me sick! "Rippling Rhymes" by
Go along with your old guard, and pick up them deadbeats and sneaks, that don't want to go back at all. "Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys" by
The advance guard of deadbeats yelled derisively. "Menotah" by
As ever cracked on sail in a racing Melbourne clipper,
And hung on to his topsails in bad weather off the Horn,
And made a crew of deadbeats wish they never had been born.