1 not paid, done, returned, etc. by the required or expected time:
an overdue payment / library book * The rent is now overdue. * Her baby is two weeks overdue. * This car is overdue for a service.
2 that should have happened or been done before now:
overdue reforms * A book like this is long overdue.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for overdue is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is overdue a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, overdue is tagged as adjective.
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