Dues

Definition

due /dju:; US du:/ adj ၁။ (က) ~ (to do sth) (အခ်ိန္ကာလ ေစ့ေရာက္မည္ဟု) ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားေသာ။ စီစဥ္ထားေသာ။ When's the baby due? ❍ His book is due to be published in October. ❍ The train is due (in) (ie should arrive) in five minutes. (ခ) ေပးရန္ရိွေသာ၊ ေပးရန္အခ်ိန္ေစ့ေရာက္ေသာ (ေငြ)။ fall/become due ❍ My rent isn't due till Wednesday. ❍ Payment should be made on or before the due date. ၂။ ~ to sth/sb ေသာေၾကာင့္။ အေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္။ အတြက္ေၾကာင့္။ absent due to illness ❍ The team's success was partly/largely/entirely due to her efforts. ၃။ ေလ်ာ္ကန္ေသာ။ ထိုက္သင့္ ေသာ။ after due consideration ❍ make due allowance for sth. See also DULY ၄။ (က) ~ (to sb) ေပးဆပ္ရန္ရိွေသာ။ တင္ရိွေသာ။ Have they been paid the money due to them? ❍ I'm still due fifteen days' leave. (ခ) ~ for sth ထိုက္တန္ေသာ။ ရသင့္ေသာ။ She's due for promotion soon. n ၁။ one's/sb's due [U] ရထိုက္ေသာအရာ။ ေပးထိုက္ေသာ အရာ။ He received a large reward, which was no more than his due (ie at least what he deserved). ❍ She's a slow worker but, to give her her due (ie to be fair to her), she does try very hard. ၂။ dues [pl] အခြန္၊ အေကာက္။ ေၾကး။ trade union dues ❍ I haven't paid my dues yet. adv စူးစူး။ (East, West, South, North ေရွ႕၌ထားသံုး သည္။ ) sail due east ❍ walk three miles due north. ❏ in due course [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္တန္ေတာ့။ ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့။ Your request will be dealt with in due course. ❏ with (all) due respect [ IDM ] ေလးစားပါတယ္၊ ဒါေပမဲ့…။ With all due respect, the figures simply do not support you on this.

Examples

1. [due on/in/at] : A new version of the software is due in the next couple of weeks.
2. [due to do something] : The case is due to go to court next month.
3. [due for] : The prisoners are not due for release until next year.
4. I’m due for a pay rise.
5. I’m due at a meeting in ten minutes.
6. Her baby is due in May.
7. When are you due?
8. Students’ term papers are due next Monday.
9. You must repay the loan
10. and any interest that is due on it.
11. The rent is due on the first day of each month.
12. [due to] : £10
13. 000 is due to her under clause 5.1 of her contract.
14. A driver has to have due regard for the safety of other road users.
15. The committee reached its decision after giving due consideration to the views of the public.
16. I have been given a lot of support by my colleagues
17. for which thanks are due.
18. [due to] : Some credit is due to the government for this improvement.