due

Meaning

1. Owed or owing.
2. Appropriate.
3. Scheduled; expected.
4. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
6. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass

proper

appropriate

of use

membership fee

adequate to

be in debt

entitled to

worthy of

gabelle

responsibility

be owed

reach deadline

bestowable

fit to be given

necessary to be paid

lead follow result

grow arise flow

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/djuː/

From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“I have”).

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