delinquentadjectiveUSformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Late
about timephrase
be/come/arrive late to the partyidiom
behindhand
belated
delayed
eleventh
in the nick of timeidiom
last
late adopter
late developer
moment
nick
not a moment too soonidiom
owl
shut/close the stable/barn door after the horse has boltedidiom
the last minuteidiom
unpunctual
unpunctuality
until all hoursidiom
wire

overdue | American Dictionary

overdue
adjective
us/ˌoʊ·vərˈdu/
not done or happening when expected or when needed; late:
She feels she’s overdue for a promotion.

overdue | Business English

overdue
adjective
uk /ˌəʊvəˈdjuː/ us /ˌəʊvərˈduː/
FINANCE, ACCOUNTING
not paid on time:
overdue payment/fee/billWe need to collect any overdue payments.
overdue loan/debtThe company routinely takes money off wages to collect on overdue debts.
The number of overdue accounts climbed to 3.93% in the second quarter.
a week/month, etc. overdueThe agents had a hard time getting people to pay bills that were six months overdue.
if something is overdue, it should have already happened or been done:
Changes to the tax system are long overdue.
She feels she's overdue for promotion.

Examples of overdue

overdue
This formal acknowledgement of informal carers as principal providers of support was seen as a recognition that was somewhat overdue.
The action is or could soon become overdue.
An engendered rebalancing of the scales is long overdue and critically important to the trajectory of the discipline.
First, note that shepard's approach points the way to a long overdue task: to compile what can be considered evolutionary constraints on perception.
By the 1980s and 1990s, with post-structuralism on the march throughout the historical world, a more encompassing analysis of anti-communism was overdue.
A popular book on language death has been long overdue.
For some soils, a review of the justification for all operations in preparing soils is overdue.
The appearance of this long overdue book will significantly improve the situation.
This particular aspect of the book is both welcome and overdue.
Given the burgeoning knowledge of these ecosystems provided by advances in techniques and increased accessibility to ice-covered seas, such a treatment is long overdue.
In my opinion, that is a long overdue, positive change in archaeology.
However, a reassessment of how and why this came to be so is overdue.
This new edition is therefore most welcome and, some might say, overdue.
But to others it marks a long overdue correction in the resetting of global healthcare priorities.
In fact, we think that discussion is long overdue.
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