Definitions for due

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due due

Spelling: [doo, dyoo]

IPA: /du, dyu/

Due is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in due (deu).

Definitions for due

noun

1. something that is due, owed, or naturally belongs to someone.
2. Usually, dues. a regular fee or charge payable at specific intervals, especially to a group or organization:

Idioms

1. due to, attributable to; ascribable to: because of; owing to:
2. give someone his / her due, to give what justice demands; treat fairly: to credit a disliked or dishonorable person for something that is likable, honorable, or the like.
3. pay one's dues, to earn respect, a position, or a right by hard work, sacrifice, or experience:

adverb

1. directly or exactly:
2. Obsolete. duly.

adjective

1. owed at present; having reached the date for payment:
2. owing or owed, irrespective of whether the time of payment has arrived:
3. owing or observed as a moral or natural right.
4. rightful; proper; fitting:
5. adequate; sufficient:
6. under engagement as to time; expected to be ready, be present, or arrive; scheduled:
7. together; in unison.
8. divisi.

Origin of due

1275-1325; Middle English Anglo-French; Middle French deu, past participle of devoir Latin dēbēre to owe; see debt

Examples for due

I was pregnant, uncomfortably so, for the first time and with twins, due the following March.

But most of this gap, say the researchers who carried out the study, is due to discrimination.

All is prepared—the table and the feast— With due appurtenance of clothes and cushions.

I don't want to trouble him, but I was bound he shouldn't keep from me what was rightly my due.

due to the video lacking audio, what they were fighting about remains a mystery—“was Jay cheating?”

With all due respect to his athletic skill, Gronkowski is not high on the list of NFL players that elicit carnal thoughts.

There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.

Boy, they be not due to you till you be come to years of discretion.

Often enough these innovations were not due to the cleverness of man's brain.

They've put lots of good weight-carriers off the track before they was due to go.