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due - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Payable immediately or on demand.
- adjective Owed as a debt; owing.
- adjective In accord with right, convention, or courtesy; appropriate.
- adjective Meeting special requirements; sufficient.
- adjective Expected or scheduled, especially appointed to arrive.
- adjective Expected to give birth.
- adjective Anticipated; looked for.
- adjective Expecting or ready for something as part of a normal course or sequence.
- adjective Capable of being attributed.
- noun Something owed or deserved.
- noun A charge or fee for membership, as in a club or organization.
- adverb Straight; directly.
- adverb Archaic Duly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To endue; endow.
- Directly; exactly: only with reference to the points of the compass: as, a due east course.
- Owed; payable as an obligation; that may be demanded” as a debt: as, the interest falls due next month.
- Owing by right of circumstances or condition; that ought to be given or rendered; proper to be conferred or devoted: as, to receive one with due honor or courtesy.
- According to requirement or need; suitable to the case; determinate; settled; exact: as, he arrived in due time or course.
- That is to be expected or looked for; under engagement as to time; promised: as, the train is due at noon; he is due in New York tomorrow.
- Owing; attributable, as to a cause or origin; assignable: followed by to: as, the delay was due to an accident.
- In law:
- Owing, irrespective of whether the time of payment has arrived: as, money is said to be due to creditors although not yet payable.
- Presently payable; already matured: as, a note is said to be due on the third day of grace.
- noun That which is owed; that which is required by an obligation of any kind, as by contract, by law, or by official, social, or religious relations, etc.; a debt; an obligation.
- noun Specifically
- noun Any toll, tribute, fee, orother legal exaction: as, custora-house dues; excise dues.
- noun Right; just title.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.
- noun Right; just title or claim.
- transitive verb obsolete To endue.
- adverb Directly; exactly.
- adjective Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.
- adjective Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.
- adjective Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact
- adjective Appointed or required to arrive at a given time.
- adjective Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Owed or owing
- adjective Appropriate.
- adjective Scheduled; expected.
- adjective Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time
- adverb used with compass directions
Directly ;exactly . - noun Deserved
acknowledgment . - noun A
membership fee.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective scheduled to arrive
- adverb directly or exactly; straight
- adjective suitable to or expected in the circumstances
- adjective capable of being assigned or credited to
- noun a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old French deu, past participle of devoir, to owe, from Latin dēbēre; see ghabh- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English, from Old French deu ("due"), past participle of devoir ("to owe"), from Latin debere ("to owe"), from de ("from") + habere ("to have")
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Examples
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But, just as in the case of the passage from the non-mental to the mental, &c., this passage may have been _ultimately_ due to divine volition, and _must have been so due_ on the theory of Theism.
Thoughts on Religion George John Romanes 1871
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Though nothing be due to the absent man, somewhat is_ _due to myself.
Jane Talbot Charles Brockden Brown 1790
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_i. e._ by the steps that are due or appointed: comp. '_due_ feet,' _Il
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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As unattached women, particularly as women of his own family, his support and protection, as he puts it, are due you, _due_ you! "
The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Mary Heaton Vorse 1920
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He was signed to Capitol Records, which released his 2003 and 2006 albums, but was later dropped from the label due to low sales.
'A Capitol Fourth' Features All-Star Cast; Jill Scott Scores Hit Album 2011
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He was signed to Capitol Records, which released his 2003 and 2006 albums, but was later dropped from the label due to low sales.
'A Capitol Fourth' Features All-Star Cast; Jill Scott Scores Hit Album 2011
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He was signed to Capitol Records, which released his 2003 and 2006 albums, but was later dropped from the label due to low sales.
'A Capitol Fourth' Features All-Star Cast; Jill Scott Scores Hit Album 2011
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He was signed to Capitol Records, which released his 2003 and 2006 albums, but was later dropped from the label due to low sales.
'A Capitol Fourth' Features All-Star Cast; Jill Scott Scores Hit Album 2011
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President Johnson had become a virtual prisoner in the White House, unable to campaign for another term due to increasingly violent protests against the unpopular Vietnam War.
The Kennedy Detail Gerald Blaine 2010
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According to the lawsuit, Dr. Dre has not seen any royalties from his groundbreaking hit album The Chronic since 1996, the year he left the label due to a strained relationship with Knight.
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Words with the same meaning
- according to Hoyle
- accountable
- accounts payable
- accounts receivable
- acknowledgment
- adequate
- alleged
- amount due
- ample
- anticipated
- appointed
- appropriate
- appurtenance
- arrearage
- arrears
- ascribable
- assignable
- attributable
- attributed
- authority
- awaited
- back
- bad debts
- balanced
- barely sufficient
- be
- becoming
- bill
- bills
- birthright
- borrowing
- charged
- charges
- chits
- claim
- cognizance
- comeuppance
- coming
- coming to
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- compensation
- competent
- condign
- conjugal right
- correct
- corresponding
- credit
- credited
- crediting
- dead
- dead ahead
- debt
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- decorous
- defensible
- demand
- derivable from
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- derivative
- deserts
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- deserving
- direct
- directly
- divine right
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- earned
- endue
- enough
- entitled to
- entitlement
- equal to
- equitable
- even
- evenhanded
- exact
- exactly
- expected
- explicable
- faculty
- fair
- fair and square
- fee
- financial commitment
- fit
- fitting
- floating debt
- forecast
- foreseen
- forthright
- funded debt
- good
- good enough
- guerdon
- hoped-for
- imminent
- imputable
- imputed
- in a beeline
- in arrear
- in arrears
- in line with
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- inalienable right
- indebtedness
- indebtment
- interest
- just
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- kosher
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- level
- liability
- long-expected
- lust
- made
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- national debt
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- obligation
- on the horizon
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- pledge
- plenty
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- power
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- prescription
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- presumptive right
- pretense
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- probable
- promised
- proper
- proper claim
- property right
- proportionate
- prospective
- public debt
- putative
- receivable
- recognition
- recompense
- recompensing
- redeemable
- referable
- referred to
- regular
- repayment
- reprisal
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- retaliation
- retribution
- revenge
- reward
- right
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- righteous
- rightful
- rights
- satisfaction
- satisfactory
- score
- seemly
- square
- straight
- straight across
- straight ahead
- straightforward
- straightforwards
- straightly
- substantial
- sufficient
- sufficient for
- sufficing
- suitable
- title
- to
- toll
- traceable
- uncollectibles
- undeviatingly
- unfulfilled pledge
- unpaid
- unsettled
- unswervingly
- unveeringly
- up to
- vengeance
- vested interest
- vested right
- warrantable
- warranted
- what is owing
- worthy of
equivalents (13)
Other words for 'due'
hypernyms (4)
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Words that are found in similar contexts
forms (7)
Forms
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Cross-references
rhymes (205)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Baku
- Blue
- Cebu
- Chengdu
- Chou
- Chu
- Crewe
- Drew
- Ewe
- Few
- Fu
- Hu
- Hue
- Hugh
- Jammu
- Jew
- Kalamazoo
- Kew
- Koo
- Kwangju
- Lemieux
- Lou
- Lu
- M2
- Mew
- Mu
- New
- Nu
- Peru
- Pooh
- Pru
- Prue
- Pu
- Q
- Que
- Ru
- Sioux
- Stew
- Stu
- Su
- Sue
- Timbuktu
- Tsu
- Tu
- Tue
- U
- Urdu
- Wenzhou
- Wu
- Yue
- Zhou
- accrue
- adieu
- ado
- anew
- askew
- babu
- ballyhoo
- bamboo
- bleu
- blew
- blue
- boo
- brew
- brue
- canoe
- chew
- choo
- chou
- clue
- construe
- coo
- coup
- coups
- crew
- cue
- debut
- dew
- do
- doo
- drew
- drive-thru
- ensue
- eschew
- ewe
- few
- flew
- flu
- flue
- fondue
- foo
- fu
- glew
- glue
- gnu
- goo
- grew
- gu
- gue
- hew
- hewe
- hitherto
- hoo
- hue
- hullabaloo
- imbue
- into
- isu
- jew
- jus
- kangaroo
- katmandu
- kazoo
- knew
- kyu
- leu
- lew
- lieu
- loo
- lue
- m2
- mew
- misconstrue
- moo
- mu
- neveu
- new
- nu
- ooh
- oooh
- ou
- outdo
- outgrew
- overdo
- overdue
- overthrew
- perdue
- pew
- phew
- plew
- poo
- pooh
- prew
- pugh
- pursue
- q
- q.
- qu
- que
- queue
- redo
- renew
- review
- revue
- rew
- roux
- rue
- screw
- shampoo
- shew
- shoe
- shoo
- shu
- skew
- slew
- soo
- spew
- stew
- strew
- subdue
- sue
- taboo
- tattoo
- tatu
- tew
- thankyou
- thew
- threw
- through
- thru
- to
- too
- trew
- true
- tue
- two
- u
- undo
- undue
- unglue
- untrue
- view
- vue
- wahoo
- whew
- who
- withdrew
- woo
- wu
- xu
- yew
- you
- yu
- yue
- zoo
qroqqa commented on the word due
A syntactically unusual adjective in that it can take a noun phrase complement ('We are due a refund'). This suggests it is actually a preposition. In fact, one of the tests for preposition vs adjective shows it is both, in different senses. The test is that when an adjective heads a preposed adjunct ('Afraid of the dark, she . . .') it has to be predicated of the following subject, but with prepositions it doesn't have to ('Ahead of her in the dark, she noticed . . .')
When 'due' means 'owed' it is an adjective because it requires predication of the subject:
Due a £1000 tax refund, we can finally afford that new sofa.
* Due a £1000 tax refund, that new sofa looks like a bargain.
But when it means 'because of' it is a preposition because it doesn't:
Due to a £1000 tax refund, that new sofa looks like a bargain.
(I'd never understood Fowler's condemnation of one to-him recent use of 'due', and just now I realized that this is probably it, the non-predicated use, so I must go back and read that bit in Modern English Usage to see if by George I've got it.)
Note that preposition 'due' requires a following PP headed by 'to'. Adjective 'due' can also be followed by a 'to'-PP: 'the refund/respect due to us'.
July 12, 2009