due
Owed or owing.
Adjective
- Owed or owing.
- He is due four weeks of back pay.
- The amount due is just three quid.
- The due bills total nearly seven thousand dollars.
Synonyms: needed owing to be made required
- Appropriate.
- With all due respect, you're wrong about that.
- With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne. - 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard]...
- Scheduled; expected.
- Rain is due this afternoon.
- The train is due in five minutes.
- When is your baby due?
- Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
- The baby is just about due.
- 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...
Synonyms: expected
- Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
- The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.
- the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars - 1852, James David Forbes, “Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science”, in Encyclopædia Britannica:
- 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...
- On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.
- The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.
Origin
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”).
Forms
Derived
credit where credit's due due and payable duebill due care and attention due course due date due day due diligence dueful dueness due place due process due process of law due to duly fall due give credit where credit is due in due course in due time make due overdue past due postage due postage-due stamp
Adverb
- Directly; exactly.
- The river runs due north for about a mile.
Forms
Noun
- Deserved acknowledgment.
- Give him his due – he is a good actor.
- 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...
- 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...
- A membership fee.
- 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. - c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- 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; […] - 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The...
- 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; […] - 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXVII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon,...
- Right; just title or claim.
- The key of this infernal pit by due […] I keep. - 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias...