What do you call someone who has passed deadline? [duplicate]

What do you call someone who has passed deadline or someone who should return book to the library, but has passed due date?

Solution 1:

In the case of the library book, it's typically called "overdue":

From Google Dictionary:

1. not having arrived, happened, or been done by the expected time.

Example: "the rent was nearly three months overdue"

synonyms: late, behind schedule, behind time, delayed, unpunctual

Overdue books are the bane of librarians and the title of this book on the subject by Marilyn Johnson:

For other scenarios, there may be a specific word such as "tardy" for the person being late to arrive at a given time, for example, as Mysti posted.

Missing a deadline for a project at work could be considered "late", "past due" or even "behind schedule"

Solution 2:

What about "tardy"-adj. When you're tardy, you're late.

: arriving or doing something late

The word comes from the Latin tardus, meaning "slow."

You may be tardy for an appointment because you got stuck in traffic, or maybe you just slept late and you don't have good time management skills. Whatever the excuse, being tardy almost always annoys whoever's waiting for you.

Solution 3:

delinquent

adjective

1. failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
2. (of an account, tax, debt, etc.) past due; overdue.
3. of or pertaining to delinquents or delinquency : delinquent attitudes.

noun

1. a person who is delinquent.

From Des Moines Public Library policies

FVII. Delinquent Borrowers

Borrowers who owe debts to the library are not afforded library privileges. Borrowing privileges will be restored when materials are returned and late return fines are paid or when all fines and fees are paid for lost materials.