The phrase "delinquent for" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used when referring to someone who has failed to fulfill a financial or legal obligation on time. Example: The company was delinquent for several months on their loan payments, resulting in additional fees and penalties.
Most customers must be delinquent for 90 days or longer.
The average household in foreclosure has been delinquent for more than 500 days.
"What's causing the high rates now is people who have been delinquent for a long time," Mr. Martin said.
After the banks' revelations about their procedures, the average number of days delinquent for a foreclosed property rose to 507 days in December, its first time above 500.
A member of the governor's security detail admonished one juvenile delinquent for making bunny ears over Arnold's head during the photos.
After a balance has been delinquent for six months, regulations require the card company to reduce the value of the debt on its books to zero.
After the VR experience, participants took a trivia quiz (see Nagin & Pogarsky, [2003]), allegedly as an optional bonus for their participation in the experiment, but in reality the dependent variable and measure for delinquent behaviour, for which they could win cash by performing well.
And, then, of course, they offered up the "juvenile delinquents" for the benefit of the owners of the new jail.
"We are humans," Nadal said, adding that athletes should not be made to feel like "delinquents" for playing sports.
Re "Whether to Kill Those Who Killed as Youths" (front page, Aug. 22): As a psychologist who worked extensively with delinquents for many years, I witnessed the cumulative effects of both overt abuse and covert abuse or neglect.
The researchers asked students to volunteer with juvenile delinquents for two hours a week for two years.
