be+due+or+owing

  • 41due to —  Most authorities continue to accept that due is an adjective only and must always modify a noun. Thus, He was absent due to illness would be wrong. Make it either He was absent because of [or owing to] illness or recast the sentence to give due… …

    Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • 42due to —    Most authorities continue to accept that due is an adjective only and must always modify a noun. Thus He was absent due to illness would be wrong. We could correct it either by writing He was absent because of [or owing to] illness or by… …

    Dictionary of troublesome word

  • 43due — 1. adjective /djuː,du/ a) Owed or owing He is due four weeks of back pay. b) Appropriate. The amount due is just three quid. Syn: needed, owing, made, required, expected …

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  • 44owing — adjective the rent was owing owing to Syn: unpaid, to be paid, payable, due, past due, overdue, undischarged, owed, outstanding, in arrears, delinquent Ant: paid …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 45due — Synonyms and related words: according to Hoyle, accountable, accounts payable, accounts receivable, acknowledgment, adequate, alleged, amount due, ample, anticipated, appropriate, appurtenance, arrearage, arrears, ascribable, assignable,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 46owing — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. owed, attributable, in debt, outstanding; see due . • owing to, Syn. as a result of, because of, due to; see because . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Owed as a debt: due, outstanding, owed, payable, receivable,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 47due — [[t]dju͟ː, AM du͟ː[/t]] ♦♦ dues 1) PHR PREP: v link PREP n 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... If the trip is a …

    English dictionary

  • 48due — 1 adjective 1 be due to be expected to happen or arrive at a particular time: When is your baby due? | be due at five o clock/thirteen hundred hours etc: The flight from Boston is due at 9:30. | be due in an hour/two days etc: The bus is due any… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 49owing — /oh ing/, adj. 1. owed, unpaid, or due for payment: to pay what is owing. 2. owing to, because of; as a result of: Owing to a mistake in the payroll department, some of us were issued incorrect checks. [1325 75; ME; see OWE, ING2] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 50owing — adj 1. due, unpaid, in arrears, owed; payable, immediately payable, mature, outstanding, receivable. 2. owing to due to, because of, thanks to; attributable to, assignable to, ascribable to, imputable to, chargeable to, accountable to; derivable… …

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