Adjective: due d(y)oo
- Owed and payable immediately or on demand
"payment is due"
- Scheduled to arrive
"the train is due in 15 minutes"
- Suitable to or expected in the circumstances
"a long due promotion"; "in due course"; "due esteem"; "exercising due care"; "all due respect"; "due cause to honour them"
- Capable of being assigned or credited to
"the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain";
- ascribable, imputable, referable
- Supposed to occur at the stated time
"The train is due at 3 PM"
- Expected to give birth on the stated date
"She's due in May"
- That which is deserved or owed
"give the devil his due"
- A payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)
"the society dropped him for non-payment of dues"
Derived forms: dues
See also: attributable, callable, COD, collect, collectable, collectible, delinquent, expected, on time, out-of-pocket, overdue, payable, receivable, repayable
Type of: fixed charge, fixed cost, fixed costs, right
Antonym: undue
Encyclopedia: Due, Peter