due
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3.4
- noun
- /du/
:
lo que le corresponde
- For once, we got to give them credit where it's due, right?
For once, we got to give them credit where it's due, right?
- For once, we got to give them credit where it's due, right?
- And I thought I'll get, I'll get what I'm due.
- Yet too often women still do not get their due.
- Look, I'll, I'll take credit where it's due.
- Weller's coming to collect his due and also like, oh, hi, dude.
- That is the virtue by which each person is given their due.
- And by the way, I'll give kudos where kudos is due.
- And then, you know, someone was, you know, And again, I I credit where credit's due.
Examples
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And so I, I always felt my mother never got her due at all.
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You work hard, you hone your craft, you pay your dues, good things will happen.
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I took you for granted, Cal, and you were a really good friend to me... ...and I never gave you your due.
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She felt that she was due more and different.
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And he says, what about justice, the virtue that allows us to give each person what they are owed, what is their due, what we ought to give them?
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I felt as if I'd paid my dues, and now freeloaders were driving in for what I'd earned.
Fiction book (1991) -
She finally received the recognition she had long felt was her due after years of hard work.
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Everyone agreed that the artist deserved her due for the contributions she made to the community.
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The payment is your due for the services rendered last month.
Synonyms
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1.0
Something done or given to return help and make up for harm
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3.8
A good or bad result that follows an action
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7.7
Money given to make up for loss, harm, or effort
Idioms
Compounds
- Formal
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4.0
Fair legal steps that follow rules and protect people from unfair loss of freedom or property
- Formal
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5.5
A rule that the government must follow fair legal steps before taking someone's life, freedom, or property
- Formal
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5.0
A level of careful attention a sensible person shows in a situation, often required by law
Surface Forms
Etymology
Due as a noun meaning what someone deserves comes from Old French deu 'owed', so it is something 'owed' to a person as a right or reward. That's why we say 'give credit where due' — give people what they deserve.