"default terms" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean the predetermined conditions of a situation, agreement, or reference. For example, "Under the default terms of the contract, the seller is responsible for all shipping costs."
The paid test-takers signed up to T&Cs, including collection of their own data, and Facebook's default terms allowed their friends' data to be collected by an app, unless they had changed their privacy settings.
Ms. Didion, who collaborated with Dunne on screenplays, writes about how the young Quintana could see a film like "Nicholas and Alexandra" — "a truly harrowing story" that "placed both parents and children in unthinkable peril" — and casually describe it in Hollywood default terms as a movie that's "going to be a big hit".
Under a personalized approach to default rules, individuals are assigned default terms in contracts or wills that are tailored to their own personalities, characteristics, and past behaviors.
An enforceable note must include the following: Default terms - What will happen if the borrower fails to repay in a timely manner.
Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
I'm so used to "Mom" being the default term for the primary caregiver that I hardly notice it anymore.
This has also become the default term for literary writers who want to write fiction with science in it, but without calling it science fiction.
"Nationalism" seems to be the default term, but that does not capture the freebooting and bullying behavior of everyday political life.
"I sent an e-mail to, I think, 19 women in the tech and new-media space that said, 'Its not like we don't love the dudes, but come on, let's not let this happen again,' " Ms. Sklar said, using her default term for men.
The default term -- in place of "health care system" -- is "medical industry".
On the same day, Waxy was the only horse that presented for the 60-guinea Ladies' Plate and won by default (termed as a "walk over").
