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Meaning of due in English

due
adjective
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/duː/

due adjective (EXPECTED)

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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.
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due adjective (BECAUSE)

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

Be due to
Be 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: …
due
noun
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/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.
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dues [ plural ]
the official payments that you make to an organization you belong to:
Members of the society pay £1,000 in annual dues.
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due
adverb
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.
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(Definition of due from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

due | American Dictionary

due
adjective
us
/du/

due adjective (OWED)

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[ 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.
due
adverb [ not gradable ]
us
/du/

due adverb [not gradable] (STRAIGHT)

(of north, south, east, or west) exactly, straight:
They headed due north.
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due | Business English

due
adjective
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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.
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Examples of due

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Initially, as the plasma plume is formed, the particle pressure is very high due to high value of pressure and density.
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This has been due to both population growth and the profitability of rice cultivation in comparison with other crops.
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And often they are interested in history due to contemporary philosophical issues.
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Thus, this term represents the sound generation due purely to the dynamics of the vortex centroids.
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This could be due to a purely syntactic difference between number words and adjectives.
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Unfortunately, complaints returned due to a disturbance of rhythm.
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Second, the high rate of follow-up participation reduces the risk of bias due to selective attrition.
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The restriction aims at reducing the combinatorial complexity of rule numbers due to the order sensitivity of phrase structure grammar.
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A slow falling time of compressed pulse was observed due to the reduced intensity at the wings of the spatial profile.
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Opening up the policy process to public, parties and politicians should be done with due reticence.
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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.
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This is mainly due to the paucity of relevant pathological studies.
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Second, it must be noted that present extremely low levels of development are largely due to the failures of past centralised regimes.
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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.
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The diffraction limit for a single image may decrease, although higher resolution datasets can still be collected due to the decreased radiation damage rate.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
預計的, 預計的，預期的, 造成…
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预计的, 预计的，预期的, 造成…
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previsto, pagadero, derecho a...…
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esperado, devido, esperado/-da em [masculine-feminine]…
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एका विशिष्ट वेळी घडणे किंवा येणे इत्यादी अपेक्षित होते., अपेक्षित, प्रती…
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（出産、到着などの）予定の, 支払い期限の, 行（おこな）われる…
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arrivé/-ée à échéance, qui est dû, dû…
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ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட நேரத்தில் நடக்கும், வரும் என எதிர்பார்க்கப்படுகிறது., கடனாக அல்லது உரிமையாக கடன்பட்டுள்ளது…
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(कुछ घटित होना, आना आदि संभावित होना) प्रत्याशित, अपेक्षित…
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એક ચોક્કસ સમયે બનવાની, પહોંચવાની, વિગેરે અપેક્ષા હોવી.…
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skyldes, forventet, passende…
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som skall betalas (tackas), skall komma, beräknas ankomma…
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hutang, dijadualkan, wajar…
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verpflichtet, fällig, gebührend…
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ہونے والا, آنے والا, واجب الادا…
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зобов'язаний, очікуваний, такий…
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రావాల్సి ఉంది, ఒక నిర్దిష్ట సమయంలో జరు గుతుంది, చేరుతుంది అని ఆశించడం…
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একটি নির্দিষ্ট সময়ে প্রত্যাশিত কিছু, বাকি আছে এমন…
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dlužný, patřící, očekávaný…
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mang ơn, theo lịch trình, đúng…
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planowany, planowy, oczekiwany…
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