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What does the phrase "by default" mean? Does it relate to the meaning of default on a computer?

I know what default means as related to settings on a computer, but what other ways can this word be used? Thanks.

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It means the same thing as it does with computers: if no other action is taken, the default action will occur or the default condition will, or will continue to, exist. If you are not male, by default you are female (the only other possible condition). If mom asks what you want for dinner and you do not take the action of telling her, by default you will have whatever she cooks. If you want to go to the movies with either Bill or John and Bill can't go, by default you will go with John. If the grass is dry and you do not water it, it will remain dry. A team cannot win a game it is obligated to play if it does not play the game, so it loses by default: by lack of the action of playing.

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i liked your examples, but i liked the first answerer's definition of by default meaning something happens automatically w/o change or effort.

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by default means automatically; something happens without change or effort. An example- Rams quarterbacks Marc Bulger and Kyle Boller are both injured, by default the third quarterback, Keith Null, must get the start.

When something happens automatically.

By Default is a term used in sports when a team doesn't show up. The other team wins, by default.

You defaulted on a loan payment...you didn't pay the loan

 

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