due

/djuː/

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Australia/dʒʉː/

due adjective: owed or owing.

Adjective

due (comparative more due, superlative most due)

Owed or owing.
- He is due four weeks of back pay.
- The amount due is just three quid.
Synonyms:

needed, owing, to be made, required
Appropriate.
- With all due respect, you're wrong about that.
- With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley...
Scheduled; expected.
- Rain is due this afternoon.
- The train is due in five minutes.
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expected, forecast
Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
- The baby is just about due.
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred...1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
Synonyms:

expected
Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
- The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.
- the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars1852, James David Forbes, “Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science”, in Encyclopædia Britannica
On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass.
- The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.

Adverb

due (comparative more due, superlative most due)

Directly; exactly.
- The river runs due north for about a mile.

Noun

due (plural dues)

Deserved acknowledgment.
- Give him his due – he is a good actor.
- Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57
Synonyms:

credit
(in plural) 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.
- He will give the devil his due.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, / Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, / Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil; […]1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza 8, page 184
Right; just title or claim.
- The key of this infernal pit by due […] I keep.1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Proper noun capitalized: Due

Due (plural Dues)

A surname.

due meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

due in Hindi

1. owed or owing, to be paid by the stated time: देय dey

due in Tamil

உரிய, உரியது, கடன், சுங்கம், தக்க, தீர்வை

due in Urdu

واجب

due in Bengali

due, debt: বাকি baki

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due in Malayalam: കടപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്ന, നിയമാനുസാരമായ, അർഹമായ
due in Kannada: ನ್ಯಾಯವಾಗಿ ಸಲ್ಲಬೇಕಾದದ್ದು, ಸಂದಾಯವಾಗಬೇಕಾದದ್ದು, ಕೊಡಬೇಕಾದ ಹಣ, ಮರುಪಾವತಿ ಮಾಡಬೇಕಾದ ಮೊಬಲಗು
due in Punjabi: حق ḥaqq
due in Tagalog: hanggan

Examples of due in a sentence

The due bills total nearly seven thousand dollars.
He can wait for the amount due him.
When is your baby due?
Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:

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Forms of due

Adjective
comparative	more due
superlative	most due
Adverb
comparative	more due
superlative	most due
Noun
plural	dues
Proper noun
plural	Dues

Plural of due: dues

Origin of due

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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Questions about due

What does due mean?: Due means owed or owing.
What is due in Hindi?: Due in Hindi is देय (dey). See Due meaning in Hindi.
How do you use due in a sentence?: The due bills total nearly seven thousand dollars.
What part of speech is due?: Due can be an adjective, an adverb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce due?: Due is pronounced /djuː/.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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