DUE | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of due in English dueadjective uk /djuː/ us /duː/

due adjective (EXPECTED)

Add to word list Add to word list B1 expected to happen, arrive, etc. at a particular time: What time is the next bus due?due to The package is due to arrive tomorrow. The next meeting is due to be held in three months' time. Their first baby is due in January.  in due course B2 formal at a suitable time in the future: You will receive notification of the results in due course. See more

• The present chairman is due to retire next month.
• They backed out of the deal the day before they were due to sign the contract.
• When is the first payment due?
• The parliamentary session is due to end on May 27.
• He's due to appear in court again on Monday.

Planning, expecting and arranging

• accidentally
• accidentally on purpose idiom
• advertent
• advisably
• advisedly
• allow
• cue
• fully expect someone/something to do something
• game fixing
• game something out phrasal verb
• half expect someone/something to do something
• have something in mind idiom
• muster
• presentiment
• prognosis
• programmatically
• proposed
• provide
• provide against something phrasal verb
• reckon

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due adjective (BECAUSE)

 due to something B1 because of something: A lot of her unhappiness is due to boredom. See more

due adjective (OWED)

C2 owed as a debt or as a right: be due The rent is due (= should be paid) at the end of the month. When is the next payment due?due to someone Our thanks are due to everyone. £50 is due me from the people I worked for last month.due care and attention UK He was found to have been driving without due (= the necessary) care and attention.  be due for something C1 to expect, need, or have the right to have something: I'm due for a promotion soon. See more Borrowing & lending

• amortizable
• amortization
• bankruptcy filer
• BB
• begging bowl
• float
• lend something to someone/something
• lending rate
• leveraged
• liability
• liquidation
• liquidity
• payable
• receiver
• syndicate
• toxic debt
• tracker
• unamortized
• uncollectable
• uncollectible

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Grammar

Be due toBe due to is used to talk about things that are expected or planned to happen at a certain time. We often use it with a time expression: … duenoun uk /djuː/ us /duː/  give someone their due said when you are praising someone for something good they have done, although you dislike other things about them: He failed again, but to give him his due, he did try hard. See more  dues [ plural ] the official payments that you make to an organization you belong to: Members of the society pay £1,000 in annual dues. See more dueadverb uk /djuː/ us /duː/  due south, north, west, etc. in a direction that is straight towards the south, north, west, etc.: From here, you go due east until you get to the Interstate. The ancient city of Rajgir is due northeast of Bodh Gaya. Points of the compass

• cardinal point
• compass reading
• compass rose
• E, e
• eastern
• easternmost
• geomagnetic pole
• magnetic north
• magnetic pole
• N, n
• northeastern
• northerly
• northern
• northernmost
• NW
• southern
• southwesterly
• SW
• westernmost
• westward

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due | American Dictionary

dueadjective us /du/

due adjective (OWED)

Add to word list Add to word list [ not gradable ] owed as a debt or as a right: I’m due a refund for the sweater I returned. Our thanks are due to everyone who gave so generously. The rent is now due (= should be paid).

due adjective (EXPECTED)

[ not gradable ] expected (to happen, arrive, etc.) at a particular time: What time is the next train due? [ + to infinitive ] The meeting is now due to take place next week.

due adjective (RESULTING)

 due to Due to can mean because of: Due to computer problems, the checks will be late. The flight was canceled due to bad weather.

due adjective (USUAL/CORRECT)

[ not gradable ] according to the usual custom or the correct process: Phillips took due note of the key statistics. In due course the business became a real money maker. dueadverb [ not gradable ] us /du/

due adverb [not gradable] (STRAIGHT)

(of north, south, east, or west) exactly, straight: They headed due north. (Definition of due from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

due | Business English

dueadjective uk /djuː/ us Add to word list Add to word list FINANCE, ACCOUNTING an amount that is due on a particular date has to be paid on that date: become/come/fall due A £110m interest payment to bondholders falls due on March 25.due on/by sth More than $2.15 billion of its outstanding loans are due by the end of this year. The loan carries an interest rate of 7.625% per annum and is due and payable on January 31. if you are due something, it is owed to you as a right: After 3 years employment, I'll be due 3 weeks vacation. if someone is due to do something, they are expected to do it or going to do it: He had been due to become technical director, but the company was taken over. expected to happen, arrive, etc. at a particular time: due on/by sth Applications are due by noon next Wednesday.be due to do sth The tribunal is due to meet this week. (Definition of due from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of due

due Initially, as the plasma plume is formed, the particle pressure is very high due to high value of pressure and density. From the Cambridge English Corpus This has been due to both population growth and the profitability of rice cultivation in comparison with other crops. From the Cambridge English Corpus And often they are interested in history due to contemporary philosophical issues. From the Cambridge English Corpus Thus, this term represents the sound generation due purely to the dynamics of the vortex centroids. From the Cambridge English Corpus This could be due to a purely syntactic difference between number words and adjectives. From the Cambridge English Corpus Unfortunately, complaints returned due to a disturbance of rhythm. From the Cambridge English Corpus Second, the high rate of follow-up participation reduces the risk of bias due to selective attrition. From the Cambridge English Corpus The restriction aims at reducing the combinatorial complexity of rule numbers due to the order sensitivity of phrase structure grammar. From the Cambridge English Corpus A slow falling time of compressed pulse was observed due to the reduced intensity at the wings of the spatial profile. From the Cambridge English Corpus Opening up the policy process to public, parties and politicians should be done with due reticence. From the Cambridge English Corpus Suppose two people disagree about an important issue, and the disagreement is not due to one party's epistemic negligence or obliviousness to relevant evidence. From the Cambridge English Corpus This is mainly due to the paucity of relevant pathological studies. From the Cambridge English Corpus Second, it must be noted that present extremely low levels of development are largely due to the failures of past centralised regimes. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, co-occurrence patterns on burned sites were random, indicating absence of competition at fine spatial scales due to differential habitat use within the burned landscape. From the Cambridge English Corpus The diffraction limit for a single image may decrease, although higher resolution datasets can still be collected due to the decreased radiation damage rate. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of due These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of due?

Translations of due

in Chinese (Traditional) 預計的, 預計的，預期的, 造成… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 预计的, 预计的，预期的, 造成… See more in Spanish previsto, pagadero, derecho a...… See more in Portuguese esperado, devido, esperado/-da em [masculine-feminine]… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian एका विशिष्ट वेळी घडणे किंवा येणे इत्यादी अपेक्षित होते., अपेक्षित, प्रती… See more （出産、到着などの）予定の, 支払い期限の, 行（おこな）われる… See more planlanan, beklenen, beklenmekte olan… See more arrivé/-ée à échéance, qui est dû, dû… See more previst, pagador… See more verschuldigd, verwacht, gepast… See more ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட நேரத்தில் நடக்கும், வரும் என எதிர்பார்க்கப்படுகிறது., கடனாக அல்லது உரிமையாக கடன்பட்டுள்ளது… See more (कुछ घटित होना, आना आदि संभावित होना) प्रत्याशित, अपेक्षित… See more એક ચોક્કસ સમયે બનવાની, પહોંચવાની, વિગેરે અપેક્ષા હોવી.… See more skyldes, forventet, passende… See more som skall betalas (tackas), skall komma, beräknas ankomma… See more hutang, dijadualkan, wajar… See more verpflichtet, fällig, gebührend… See more ventet, forfalt, behørig… See more ہونے والا, آنے والا, واجب الادا… See more зобов'язаний, очікуваний, такий… See more రావాల్సి ఉంది, ఒక నిర్దిష్ట సమయంలో జరు గుతుంది, చేరుతుంది అని ఆశించడం… See more একটি নির্দিষ্ট সময়ে প্রত্যাশিত কিছু, বাকি আছে এমন… See more dlužný, patřící, očekávaný… See more berhutang, dijadwalkan, semestinya… See more ที่เป็นหนี้, ถึงกำหนดเวลา, เหมาะสม… See more mang ơn, theo lịch trình, đúng… See more planowany, planowy, oczekiwany… See more 예정된, 돈을 지불해야 하는… See more previsto, dovuto, spettante… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of due

• due process
• due bill
• due date
• past due
• due diligence
• due care and attention
• amount falling due after one year

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• due to something phrase
• be due for something phrase
• give someone their due phrase
• in due course phrase
• with all due respect idiom
• with (all due) respect idiom
• (to) give the devil his due idiom

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• English   
  • Adjective 
    • due (EXPECTED)
    • in due course
    • due (BECAUSE)
    • due to something
    • due (OWED)
    • be due for something
  • Noun 
    • give someone their due
    • dues
  • Adverb 
    • due south, north, west, etc.
• American   
  • Adjective 
    • due (OWED)
    • due (EXPECTED)
    • due (RESULTING)
    • due to
    • due (USUAL/CORRECT)
  • Adverb 
    • due (STRAIGHT)
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