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adjective
1 be due to be expected to happen or arrive at a particular time: When is your baby due? | be due at five o'clock/thirteen hundred hours etc: The flight from Boston is due at 9:30. | be due in an hour/two days etc: The bus is due any minute now. | be due to do sth: The meeting isn't due to start until three. | be due for sth (=expect to get something): I'm due for a pay rise soon. | due back/out/in etc: You were due back an hour ago.2 due to because of: The company's problems are due to a mixture of bad luck and poor management. | The 15.30 train to Sheffield has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control.—see owing3 OWED owed to someone either as a debt or because they have a right to it: You're due three weeks holiday this year. | be due to: Treat him with the respect that is due to a world champion.4 MONEY (not before noun) an amount of money that is due is the amount that should be paid now: The first interest payments will be due in August.5 with (all) due respect spoken used when you disagree with someone or criticize them in a polite way: With all due respect, you don't have as much experience as she does.6 in due course at some time in the future when it is the right time, but not before: The committee will consider your application in due course.7 PROPER (only before noun) formal proper or suitable: She was convicted of driving without due care and attention.—see also: duly 2 noun1 give sb his/her due used when criticizing someone to admit that not all the things they did were bad, wrong, unpleasant etc: John was a lousy teacher, but to give him his due he tried hard.2 dues (plural) regular payments you make to an organization of which you are a member: pay your dues: All the union members have already paid their dues.3 your/his etc due the amount of money someone is owed, or something they have a right to: Gwen never takes more than her due.3 adverb due north/south/east/west directly or exactly north etc
Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.