Due
Owed, as a debt; that ought to be paid or done to or for another; payable; owing and demandable.
Justly claimed as a right or property; proper; suitable; becoming; appropriate; fit.
Such as (a thing) ought to be; fulfilling obligation; proper; lawful; regular; appointed; sufficient; exact; as, due process of law; due service; in due time.
Appointed or required to arrive at a given time; as, the steamer was due yesterday.
Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
Directly; exactly; as, a due east course.
That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll.
Right; just title or claim.
To endue.
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Due Quotations
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway
It is right to give every man his due.
Plato
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Saint Augustine
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Chanakya
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
Will Rogers
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
Will Rogers
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.
Thomas Paine
Due Translations
due in French is taxe
due in Italian is scaduto, tassa
due in Norwegian is skyldig, forfallen
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