Delinquency Rate

  

The rate at which customers are late in paying bills they owe you.

Like...if you have 500 receivables owed to you and 5 of them are late (i.e., over the "Net 30" rates under which you sold them), then your delinquency rate is 1%.

Nope, nothin' funny about that.

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