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Due
Definitions
- 1 Owed or owing.
"He is due four weeks of back pay."
- 2 Appropriate.
"With all due respect, you're wrong about that."
- 3 Scheduled; expected.
"Rain is due this afternoon."
- 4 Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
"The baby is just about due."
- 5 Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
"The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping."
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- 6 On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.
"The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge."
- 1 owed and payable immediately or on demand wordnet
- 2 suitable to or expected in the circumstances wordnet
- 3 capable of being assigned or credited to wordnet
- 4 scheduled to arrive wordnet
- 1 Directly; exactly.
"The river runs due north for about a mile."
- 1 directly or exactly; straight wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 1 Deserved acknowledgment.
"Give him his due – he is a good actor."
- 2 that which is deserved or owed wordnet
- 3 A membership fee. in-plural
- 4 a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership) wordnet
- 5 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.
"He will give the devil his due."
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- 6 Right; just title or claim.
"The key of this infernal pit by due […] I keep."
Etymology
From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).
From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).
From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“to have”).
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