due

CEFRA2

/djuː/

adjective

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01
adjective
Expected or required at a particular time.
02
adjective
Owed as money or payment.

Examples

I'm tied up with a project that is due Friday.
The team's success was largely due to her efforts.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/djʉw/
/du/

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adjective

Extra meanings

Scheduled; expected.
Owed or owing.
Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.

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Your poor memory is due to poor listening habits.
He is due four weeks of back pay.
The amount due is just three quid.

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The project is blank for completion by the end of the month.

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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: […]...
As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? 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
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 years.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars
1852, James David Forbes, “Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science”, in Encyclopædia Britannica
Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

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Origin

adjective

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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adjective

The project is blank for completion by the end of the month.