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What's The Definition Of Due?
[n] that which is deserved or owed; "give the devil his due"
[n] a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership); "the society dropped him for non-payment of dues" [adv] directly or exactly; straight; "went due North" [adj] reasonable in the circumstances; "gave my comments due consideration"; "exercising due care" [adj] owed and payable immediately or on demand; "payment is due" [adj] suitable to or expected in the circumstances; "all due respect"; "due cause to honor them"; "a long due promotion"; "in due course" [adj] proper and appropriate; fitting; "richly deserved punishment"; "due esteem" Synonyms | Synonyms for Due: anticipated | appropriate | callable | cod | collect | collectable | collectible | delinquent | deserved | looked-for(a) | merited | overdue | owed | owing(p) | payable | receivable | repayable Related Terms | Find terms related to Due: according to Hoyle | accountable | accounts payable | accounts receivable | acknowledgment | adequate | alleged | amount due | ample | anticipated | appropriate | appurtenance | arrearage | arrears | ascribable | assignable | attributable | attributed | authority | awaited | back | bad debts | balanced | barely sufficient | bill | bills | birthright | borrowing | charged | charges | chits | claim | cognizance | comeuppance | coming | coming to | commensurate | compensation | competent | condign | conjugal right | correct | corresponding | credit | credited | crediting | dead | dead ahead | debt | decent | decorous | defensible | demand | derivable from | derivational | derivative | deserts | deserved | deserving | direct | directly | divine right | droit | due north | dueness | dues | earned | enough | entitled to | entitlement | equal to | equitable | even | evenhanded | expected | explicable | faculty | fair | fair and square | financial commitment | fit | fitting | floating debt | foreseen | forthright | funded debt | good | good enough | guerdon | hoped-for | imminent | imputable | imputed | in a beeline | in arrear | in arrears | in line with | in prospect | in view | inalienable right | indebtedness | indebtment | interest | just | justifiable | justified | kosher | lawful | legal | level | liability | long-expected | lust | mature | maturity | meet | meet and right | merit | merited | meriting | meritorious | minimal | minimum | national debt | natural right | need | nice | normal | normative | obligation | on the horizon | outstanding | outstanding debt | overdue | owed | owing | payable | payment | pledge | plenty | plenty good enough | power | prerogative | prescription | presumed | presumptive right | pretense | pretension | probable | promised | proper | proper claim | property right | proportionate | prospective | public debt | putative | receivable | recognition | recompense | recompensing | redeemable | referable | referred to | repayment | reprisal | requisite | retaliation | retribution | revenge | reward | right | right and proper | righteous | rightful | rights | satisfaction | satisfactory | score | seemly | square | straight | straight across | straight ahead | straightforward | straightforwards | straightly | substantial | sufficient | sufficient for | sufficing | suitable | title | traceable | uncollectibles | undeviatingly | unfulfilled pledge | unpaid | unsettled | unswervingly | unveeringly | up to | vengeance | vested interest | vested right | warrantable | warranted | what is owing | worthy of See Also | fixed charge | right Due In Webster's Dictionary \Due\, a. [OF. deu, F. d[^u], p. p. of devoir to owe, fr. L.
debere. See {Debt}, {Habit}, and cf. {Duty}.]
1. Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for
another; payable; owing and demandable.
2. Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable;
becoming; appropriate; fit.
Her obedience, which is due to me. --Shak.
With dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the
churchway path we saw him borne. --Gray.
3. Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation;
proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as,
due process of law; due service; in due time.
4. Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the
steamer was due yesterday.
5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
This effect is due to the attraction of the sun.
--J. D.
Forbes.
\Due\, adv. Directly; exactly; as, a due east course. \Due\, n. 1. That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll. He will give the devil his due. --Shak. Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil. --Tennyson. 2. Right; just title or claim. The key of this infernal pit by due . . . I keep. --Milton. \Due\, v. t. To endue. [Obs.] --Shak. |
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