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1: owed or owing as a debt2 a: owed or owing as a natural or moral right <everyone's right to dissent…is due the full protection of the Constitution
— Nat Hentoff> b: according to accepted notions or procedures : appropriate <with all due respect>3 a: satisfying or capable of satisfying a need, obligation, or duty : adequate <giving the matter due attention> b: regular, lawful <due proof of loss>4: capable of being attributed : ascribable —used with to<this advance is partly due to a few men of genius
— A. N. Whitehead>5: having reached the date at which payment is required : payable <the rent is due>6: required or expected in the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events : scheduled <the train is due at noon>
; also : expected to give birth
— due·ness noun
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