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due

Pronunciation: /djuː/

The English word “due” has 11 meanings listed here.

adjective

  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.

adverb

  1. Directly; exactly.

noun

  1. Deserved acknowledgment.
  2. A membership fee.
  3. 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.
  4. Right; just title or claim.

Etymology

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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