due.
Owed or owing.
Meaning & usage
Owed or owing.
He is due four weeks of back pay.
The amount due is just three quid.
Appropriate.
With all due respect, you're wrong about that.
Scheduled; expected.
Rain is due this afternoon.
The train is due in five minutes.
Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
The baby is just about due.
Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.
On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.
The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.
Where this word comes from
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”).
Directly; exactly.
The river runs due north for about a mile.
Where this word comes from
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”).
Deserved acknowledgment.
Give him his due – he is a good actor.
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.
Right; just title or claim.
Where this word comes from
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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