due

Etymology

From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”), from dē- (“from”) + habeō (“I have”).

adj

1. Owed or owing.
   He is due four weeks of back pay.
   The amount due is just three quid.
   The due bills total nearly seven thousand dollars.
   He can wait for the amount due him.
2. Appropriate.
   With all due respect, you're wrong about that.
   With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.
3. Scheduled; expected.
   Rain is due this afternoon.
   The train is due in five minutes.
   When is your baby due?
   As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon. January 12 2022, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42
4. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
   The baby is just about due.
   The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess
5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
   The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.
   the milky aspect be due to a confusion of small stars 1852, James David Forbes, “Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science”, in Encyclopædia Britannica
   Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres. 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
6. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass
   The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.

adv

1. (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.
   The river runs due north for about a mile.

noun

1. Deserved acknowledgment.
   Give him his due — he is a good actor.
   Chelsea, to give them their due, did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out. 31 January 2015, Daniel Taylor, “David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked”, in The Guardian (London)
2. (in plural dues) A membership fee.
3. That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
4. Right; just title or claim.