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say it: doo
due is an adjective, noun and adverb meaning "owed and payable immediately or on demand". It is pronounced /ˈdu/ — doo. It carries 7 recorded senses.
owed and payable immediately or on demand
“payment is due”
suitable to or expected in the circumstances
“all due respect”
“due cause to honor them”
“a long due promotion”
“in due course”
“due esteem”
“exercising due care”
capable of being assigned or credited to
“punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading”
“the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain”
“the oversight was not imputable to him”
a payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)
“the society dropped him for non-payment of dues”
directly or exactly; straight
“went due North”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for due come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.