due

Meanings

Adjective

  • Owed or owing.
  • Appropriate.
  • Scheduled; expected.
  • Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
  • Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
  • On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass

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Noun

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Origin

  • From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deu ("due"), past participle of devoir, from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō, from dē- + habeō.

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