{i} something which is owed to a person; something which legally or rightfully belongs to an individual; payment, fee
If you say that something will happen or take place in due course, you mean that you cannot make it happen any quicker and it will happen when the time is right for it. In due course the baby was born
Due attention or consideration is the proper, reasonable, or deserved amount of it under the circumstances. After due consideration it was decided to send him away to live with foster parents = proper
If someone is due for something, that thing is planned to happen or be given to them now, or very soon, often after they have been waiting for it for a long time. He is not due for release until 2020. Due is also a preposition. I reckon I'm due one of my travels
You can say `to give him his due', or `giving him his due' when you are admitting that there are some good things about someone, even though there are things that you do not like about them. To give Linda her due, she had tried to encourage John in his school work
Diligence - If a question of liability exists with a newly discovered contamination site, the present owner is not responsible for the contamination via establishing a paper trail or otherwise that demonstrates how and when the contamination occurred, as well as who occupied the property at that time Also, steps should be taken to ensure that people at the redeveloped site are not exposed to harmful contaminants
If an event is due to something, it happens or exists as a direct result of that thing. The country's economic problems are largely due to the weakness of the recovery
Something that is due, or that is due to someone, is owed to them, either as a debt or because they have a right to it. I was sent a cheque for £1,525 and advised that no further pension was due I've got some leave due to me and I was going to Tasmania for a fortnight. Due is also a preposition. He had not taken a summer holiday that year but had accumulated the leave due him