default vs recall

default

noun
  • The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint. 

  • The condition of failing to meet an obligation. 

  • The condition of being an obligation that has not been met. 

  • the original software programming settings as set by the factory 

  • A selection made in the absence of an alternative. 

  • A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed. 

  • A loss incurred by failing to compete. 

verb
  • To fail to fulfill a financial obligation. 

  • To lose a competition by failing to compete. 

  • To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint. 

  • To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard. 

recall

noun
  • Request of the return of a faulty product. 

  • Memory; the ability to remember. 

  • The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search. 

  • The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state. 

  • The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters. 

verb
  • To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc. 

  • To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote. 

  • To call back, bring back or summon (someone) to a specific place, station etc. 

  • To call back (a situation, event etc.) to one's mind; to remember, recollect. 

  • To call again, to call another time. 

  • To request or order the return of (a faulty product). 

  • To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order). 

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