Be due to
Be due to is used to talk about things that are expected or planned to happen at a certain time. We often use it with a time expression: …
due
noun
uk /dʒuː/ us /duː/
 give someone their due
said when you are praising someone for something good they have done, although you dislike other things about them: 说句公道话，实事求是地讲
He failed again, but to give him his due, he did try hard.他又失败了，但说句公道话，他确实尽力了。
 dues[ plural ]
the official payments that you make to an organization you belong to: 会费
Members of the society pay £1,000 in annual dues.这个社团的会员每年支付1000美元的会费。
due
adverb
uk /dʒuː/ us /duː/
 due south, north, west, etc.
in a direction that is straight towards the south, north, west, etc.:
From here, you go due east until you get to the Interstate.你从这里朝正东走，一直走到州际公路。
The ancient city of Rajgir is due northeast of Bodh Gaya.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Points of the compass
cardinal point
compass reading
compass rose
E, e
easterly
eastern
easternmost
geomagnetic pole
magnetic north
magnetic pole
northeastern
northeastward
northerly
northern
northernmost
southern
southwestern
SW
western
westernmost

due | American Dictionary

due
adjective
us/du/

dueadjective (OWED)

[ not gradable ]
owed as a debt or as a right:
I’m due a refund for the sweater I returned.
Our thanks are due to everyone who gave so generously.
The rent is now due (= should be paid).

dueadjective (EXPECTED)

[ not gradable ]
expected (to happen, arrive, etc.) at a particular time:
What time is the next train due?
[ + to infinitive ]The meeting is now due to take place next week.

dueadjective (RESULTING)

 due to
Due to can mean because of:
Due to computer problems, the checks will be late.
The flight was canceled due to bad weather.

dueadjective (USUAL/CORRECT)

[ not gradable ]
according to the usual custom or the correct process:
Phillips took due note of the key statistics.
In due course the business became a real money maker.
due
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/du/

dueadverb[not gradable] (STRAIGHT)

(of north, south, east, or west) exactly, straight:
They headed due north.

due | Business English

due
adjective
uk /djuː/us
FINANCE, ACCOUNTING
an amount that is due on a particular date has to be paid on that date:
become/come/fall dueA £110m interest payment to bondholders falls due on March 25.
due on/by sthMore than $2.15 billion of its outstanding loans are due by the end of this year.
The loan carries an interest rate of 7.625% per annum and is due and payable on January 31.
if you are due something, it is owed to you as a right:
After 3 years employment, I'll be due 3 weeks vacation.
if someone is due to do something, they are expected to do it or going to do it:
He had been due to become technical director, but the company was taken over.
expected to happen, arrive, etc. at a particular time:
due on/by sthApplications are due by noon next Wednesday.
be due to do sthThe tribunal is due to meet this week.

Examples of due

due
Initially, as the plasma plume is formed, the particle pressure is very high due to high value of pressure and density.
This has been due to both population growth and the profitability of rice cultivation in comparison with other crops.
And often they are interested in history due to contemporary philosophical issues.
Thus, this term represents the sound generation due purely to the dynamics of the vortex centroids.
This could be due to a purely syntactic difference between number words and adjectives.
Unfortunately, complaints returned due to a disturbance of rhythm.
Second, the high rate of follow-up participation reduces the risk of bias due to selective attrition.
The restriction aims at reducing the combinatorial complexity of rule numbers due to the order sensitivity of phrase structure grammar.
A slow falling time of compressed pulse was observed due to the reduced intensity at the wings of the spatial profile.
Opening up the policy process to public, parties and politicians should be done with due reticence.
Suppose two people disagree about an important issue, and the disagreement is not due to one party's epistemic negligence or obliviousness to relevant evidence.
This is mainly due to the paucity of relevant pathological studies.
Second, it must be noted that present extremely low levels of development are largely due to the failures of past centralised regimes.
However, co-occurrence patterns on burned sites were random, indicating absence of competition at fine spatial scales due to differential habitat use within the burned landscape.
The diffraction limit for a single image may decrease, although higher resolution datasets can still be collected due to the decreased radiation damage rate.
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