due — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Owed or owing.

   Synonyms

   neededowingto be maderequired

   Examples

   He is due four weeks of back pay.

   The amount due is just three quid.

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   The due bills total nearly seven thousand dollars.

   He can wait for the amount due him.

2. Appropriate.

   Examples

   With all due respect, you're wrong about that.

   With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.

3. Scheduled; expected.

   Synonyms

   expectedforecast

   Examples

   Rain is due this afternoon.

   The train is due in five minutes.

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   When is your baby due?

   As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.

4. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.

   Synonyms

   expected

   Examples

   The baby is just about due.

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   The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.

5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.

   Examples

   The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.

   the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars

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   Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.

6. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.

   Examples

   The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.

Adverb

1. Directly; exactly.

   Usage

   • used with compass directions

   Examples

   The river runs due north for about a mile.

Noun

1. Deserved acknowledgment.

   Synonyms

   credit

   Examples

   Give him his due – he is a good actor.

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   Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.

   Chelsea, to give them their due, did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.

2. A membership fee.

   Usage

   • in-plural

3. That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.

   Examples

   He will give the devil his due.

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   Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, / Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, / Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; […]

   For I am but an earthly Muse, ⁠And owning but a little art ⁠To lull with song an aching heart, And render human love his dues; […]

4. Right; just title or claim.

   Examples

   The key of this infernal pit by due […] I keep.

Adjective

1. owed and payable immediately or on demand

   Antonyms

   undue

   Examples

   payment is due

2. scheduled to arrive

   Examples

   the train is due in 15 minutes

3. suitable to or expected in the circumstances

   Antonyms

   undue

   Examples

   all due respect

   due cause to honor them

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   a long due promotion

   in due course

   due esteem

   exercising due care

4. capable of being assigned or credited to

   Synonyms

   ascribableimputablereferable

   Examples

   punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading

   the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain

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   the oversight was not imputable to him

Noun

1. that which is deserved or owed

   Broader terms

   right

   Examples

   give the devil his due

2. a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)

   Broader terms

   fixed chargefixed costfixed costs

   Examples

   the society dropped him for non-payment of dues

Adverb

1. directly or exactly; straight

   Examples

   went due North