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- Due by, due on, due for - whats the difference?
While I agree that "due for" usually refers to a person and event and not the time something is due, I received an email recently where someone said "we need this for Thursday" When "for" is followed by a temporal noun, what is the precise meaning? Given your example with 'Mr Green's Class', "due for" seems closer to "due on", putting more emphasis on the date than the precise time Would
- Past due or passed due - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I know that "past due" stamped on a bill is accepted, however I believe it should be "passed due" Does this mean that "past due" is vernacularly correct and "passed due" is grammatically correct?
- meaning - Do owed and due mean the opposite? - English Language . . .
I wonder if "owed" and "due" mean the opposite in the following quote from Wikipedia? In banking and accountancy, the outstanding balance is the amount of money owed, (or due), that remains in a deposit account (or a loan account) at a given date, after all past remittances, payments and withdrawal have been accounted for
- Is completing a task on the due date considered overdue?
I suspect the difficulty, or the ambiguity might actually come from the meaning of the date Does Friday mean Friday at 9:00am, any time on Friday, one minute before the end of the day on Friday? But if this level of specificity is included in the "due date" or "due by" there is no ambiguity "Task X has a due date of 9:00am, 01 01 2019" unambiguously means task X must be completed on or
- meaning - falling due vs due - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
What's the definition of falling due and how did its sense materialise? Please compare it against "due"? I'm mindful that it's an accounting business term: here are its matches on Google Books I'
- What is the difference between owing to and due to?
So "due to" is a preposition meaning "because of," and "owing to" is a preposition meaning "because of"—not much basis for distinction there It follows that, in modern usage, embracing "owing to" while rejecting "due to" has no rational basis If the justification doesn't lie in historical idiomatic preference, it doesn't lie anywhere
- What is the proper usage of the phrase due diligence?
4 "Due diligence" is a legal term to describe when one has exercised an appropriate level of caution or investigation prior to acting or making a decision To "do due diligence" is an attempt to use the legal term in a grammatically inappropriate way
- Can due meaning owed be used without to in AmE? e. g. the . . .
the original phrasing refers to the dignity which the situation merits justifies deserves Your rewrite seems to refer to an attempt to salvage [some] dignity because of the situation, but it doesn't really make sense to me Note that the preposition to in She finally got the recognition due to her is "stylistically optional" - it's syntactically fine with or without, and the meaning is
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