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Adjective: due  d(y)oo
  1. Owed and payable immediately or on demand
    "payment is due"
     
  2. Scheduled to arrive
    "the train is due in 15 minutes"
     
  3. 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"
     
  4. Capable of being assigned or credited to
    "the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain";
    - ascribable, imputable, referable
     
  5. Supposed to occur at the stated time
    "The train is due at 3 PM"
     
  6. Expected to give birth on the stated date
    "She's due in May"
Noun: due  d(y)oo
  1. That which is deserved or owed
    "give the devil his due"
     
  2. A payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)
    "the society dropped him for non-payment of dues"
Adverb: due  d(y)oo
  1. Directly or exactly; straight
    "went due North"

Sounds like: dee, d

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