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[doo, dyoo]

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adjective

owed at present; having reached the date for payment: This bill is due.

owing or owed, irrespective of whether the time of payment has arrived: This bill is due next month.

owing or observed as a moral or natural right.

rightful; proper; fitting: due care; in due time.

adequate; sufficient: a due margin for delay.

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under engagement as to time; expected to be ready, be present, or arrive; scheduled: The plane is due at noon.

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noun

something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.

Usually, dues. a regular fee or charge payable at specific intervals, especially to a group or organization: membership dues.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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adverb

directly or exactly: a due east course.

10.

Obsolete. duly.

Idioms

11.

due to,

attributable to; ascribable to: The delay was due to heavy traffic.

because of; owing to: All planes are grounded due to fog.

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give someone his/her due,

to give what justice demands; treat fairly: Even though he had once cheated me, I tried to give him his due.

to credit a disliked or dishonorable person for something that is likable, honorable, or the like.

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pay one's dues, to earn respect, a position, or a right by hard work, sacrifice, or experience: She's a famous musician now, but she paid her dues with years of practice and performing in small towns.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English < Anglo-French; Middle French deu, past participle of devoir < Latin dēbēre to owe; see debt

Related forms

due·ness, noun

Can be confused: dew, do, due (see synonym note at do¹; see usage note at the current entry).

Usage note
11. Due to as a prepositional phrase meaning “because of, owing to” has been in use since the 14th century: Due to the sudden rainstorm, the picnic was moved indoors. Some object to this use on the grounds that due is historically an adjective and thus should be used only predicatively in constructions like The delay was due to electrical failure. EXPANDDespite such objections, due to occurs commonly as a compound preposition and is standard in all varieties of speech and writing

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Example Sentences

Below is appended a list of emigrant ships due and not heard from.

Failed cotton due to drought presents management concerns for follow-up crops.

The discrepancy is thought to be due to delays in recording imports.

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Below is appended a list of emigrant ships due and not heard from.

Failed cotton due to drought presents management concerns for follow-up crops.

The discrepancy is thought to be due to delays in recording imports.

Dubai experiences heavy fog due to the still-high humidity and the falling temperatures.

Obesity is caused by excess body fat gained due to bad food habits and less physical activities.

Save public health costs due to communicable diseases.

Sloping land and heavy clay soils invite runoff--due to gravity in the first case, due to slow water penetration in the second.

It's never worth pulling a punch when you talk about a game due to fear of retaliation.

Incomplete applications or applications received after the due date will not be considered.

The failure was blamed on metal fatigue exacerbated by corrosion due to the coastal environment of the aircraft's operation.

But the in-air bird deaths aren't due to some apocalyptic plague or insidious experiment-they happen all the time, scientists say.

And other models put the incidence of an accident as little as two weeks away, due to the cracked and buckled stainless steel.

Due to these studies of past earthquakes, the world is looking ever more inhospitable.

Water early in the day, when there's less moisture loss due to heat evaporation and wind is less likely to blow water away.

The original version of the app was removed due to a bug that has since been fixed.

Sucking at arithmetic is usually due to laziness or sloppy work.

Egypt's failure to educate its people is not due to lack of effort.

The sun's output waxes and wanes due to a variety of mechanisms.

Due to climate change substantial amounts of offshore sea ice are melting.

Also the normal ratio of more wounded than killed was reveresed due in part to the significant lack of water.

That's due both to the small size of the mineral particles and to the air and water contained in the pore spaces between them.

There is a need for a due diligence examination of these plans.

Each time period corresponds with when the borrowers' first loan repayments were due.

At first, this may be good due to the low cost of labor.

But the impact upriver has been disastrous, due to a stunning lack of foresight.

Even now as it is coming out that he may have expired due to a seizure, they are too cowardly to connect the dots.

Individual fish can be distinguished in photos due to differences in the shape of the blue lines around their eyes.

First, know your soil texture: if the poor drainage is due to heavy clay soil, amend it thoroughly with organic matter.

There's some hope the bill will be stopped, in no small part due to a widespread internet campaign to stop the bill.

Due to the volume of applications, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Lip-service to the law and due process has won plaudits overseas and boosted the economy at home.

Put simply seashells are formed due to sea current and years and years of erosion.

Speciation occurs due to geographic separation which prevents interbreeding over time.

If seeds germinated,the kids were to report any normal or abnormal growth due to mutations from radiation and/or lack of gravity.

In the summer, body weight can go up by several pounds due to increased body water.

The bird's obscurity is due in large part to the remoteness of its habitat.

With hydroponics pests and diseases are also easier to get rid of than in soil due to the mobility of the containers.

Climbers suffer blood clots and strokes due to thickened blood.

The sky is blue due to the way light is scattered in the atmosphere.

Here she is in the nest with six ducklings-and another three eggs are due to hatch in the next few days.

The ocean is getting warmer, higher and more acidic due to climate change.

Citrus may suffer from chlorosis due to iron, manganese, or zinc deficiency.

And these processes are accelerating due to climate change.

They molt and do not lay in the winter due to the short day length.

Due to the warm climate, oil eating bacteria consumed almost all the oil within two years.

Many times my kitchen becomes so messy and due to rotten potatoes.

The key is finding traits that are shared in some organisms due to common ancestry but are absent in others.

So as you wander the zoo's landscaped paths, give the other animals their due.

The larger vehicles are still moving slowly due to the extra expense of battery packs.

The second observation point rests in almost the exact same position due east of the towers.

IN spite of popular misconception, an airplane accident due to a spin is almost non-existent.

Prices have in some cases been trending up due to rises in food and energy costs.

The phenomenon is mainly due to astronomical arithmetic-and a few mix-ups.

Unfortunately, it disappeared a few days later due to an unexpected temperature rise….

Iron chlorosis refers to a loss of green color in leaves due to a lack of iron.

The result is a decrease in the sound produced due of the wake interaction at the tip.

I've noticed a significant increase in the number of students unable to adhere to due dates for papers.

Right now, a precarious government is more concerned about getting due credit at the ballot box.

Seen by outsiders as entertainment due to the singing, dancing, and colorful.

It may be because the babies are confused at the smaller block knocking the larger block out the way due to the laws of inertia.

My first meal alone in a new city was delayed due to an unexpected test of survival skills.

The fall is treated as proof of overvaluation due to the initial, wrong statement.

Slumped on a dirty floor, this young girl constantly scratches her skin due to an illness.

Singing therapy is often used to restore fluency to sufferers of speech disorders due to stroke.

Space orders are due on or before closing date and may not be canceled by the advertiser after that date.

Many experts say breaks or fading may be due to wear and tear during print runs.

Two-thirds of it was due to food prices, and much of that was due to pork.

The drop-off is likely due to market forces, not environmental policies, experts say.

Playback occasionally halts due to dust saturation or positioning errors.

All of this has been possible due to investments in infrastructure on a grand scale.

Destructive outbreaks in recent years due to changing climate and human.

Jones gives an impressive-if not always noble-American his due.

The economy's strength has largely been due to mining-company exports, such as iron.

They are quieter than their predecessors, largely due to their enormous size and improvements in.

Earthquake is caused due to the movement of the land is a myth.

Recently, things have begun slowing down due to the financial crisis.

They have the whole week--comments on your partner's draft are due the.

Then you notice that there's been a huge amount of change due to the logging industry.

It will help prevent difficulties in performing daily duties due to lack of understanding or inconsistent methods.

The principal resistances encountered by an aeroplane when in flight are those due to the lift and the head surface.

The existence of so many springs in the central and northern part of the state is due to the limestone formations that underly it.

The gains were not solely due to the endowments' appreciation in value.

Unfortunately the amount of data coming to or leaving from my smartphone is mostly not due to a phone call.

Instead, it was a drop-off in tourism-partly due to fears about swine flu and escalating drug violence.

Lilley's firing appears to be due instead to clashes over his management.

The inhibitory aspect occurs due to a hyperpolarization of neurons, secondary to an influx of chloride ions.

It is ironic because neither can use their gift due to the sacrifices that they made to get the other's gift.

In some ways, pollution of caves is inevitable due to the cracks and fissures in the rock surrounding them.

The colors are always due to some impurity or defect in the diamond's structure.

Perfect balance--made more so due to his upside down stillness in motion, and the swirling particles in his wake.

There are numerous cases of acetaminophen toxicity each year due to people abusing it and damaging their liver function.

Some even look at old restaurant menus to learn when certain seafood became more costly, usually due to scarcity.

Science will eventually take the day, it always does: the planet is warming due to anthropogenic factors.

But these communities of people simply didn't spring up out of nowhere to demand their due.

Their venom flows down outer grooves and lessens in viscosity due to suction after the bite.

His landscapes were really exceptional due to his use of searing colors and unusual vantage points.

The cub later died of pneumonia due to a straw seed lodged in its lung.

The town hasn't changed much and is now in disrepair due to a downturn in the economy.

Each township was to be organized by straight lines running due north and south, and due east and west.

Just because you have not done due diligence in your research does not mean they are made by aliens.

Due to some of the plays themes, this play is best suited to middle school-aged person and older.

The city's art mania is also due in no small part to a handful of energetic collectors.

It was, they told themselves, no more than their due.

Part of my anxiety is due to the carnage scattered around.

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World English Dictionary

due (djuː)

—*adj*
1.	(postpositive) immediately payable
2.	(postpositive) owed as a debt, irrespective of any date for payment
3.	requisite; fitting; proper
4.	(prenominal) adequate or sufficient; enough
5.	(postpositive) expected or appointed to be present or arrive: the train is now due
6.	due to attributable to or caused by

—n
7.	something that is owed, required, or due
8.	give a person his due to give or allow a person what is deserved or right

—*adv*
9.	directly or exactly; straight: a course due west

usage The use of due to as a compound preposition (the performance has been cancelled due to bad weather) was formerly considered incorrect, but is now acceptable

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Word Origin & History

due

mid-14c., from O.Fr. deu, pp. of devoir "to owe," from L. debere "to owe" (see debt). In reference to points of the compass (e.g. due east) it is attested from c.1600, originally nautical, from notion of "fitting, rightful."

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Idioms & Phrases

due

In addition to the idiom beginning with due, also see give credit (where it's due); give someone his or her due; give the devil his due; in due course; pay one's dues; with all due respect.

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due

give credit (where it's due)

give someone his or her due

give the devil his due

in due course

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