Difference between Owing and Due

What is the difference between Owing and Due?

Owing as an adjective is still to be paid; owed as a debt. while Due as an adjective is owed or owing

Owing

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Still to be paid; owed as a debt.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone.

Example sentence: I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.

Due

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Owed or owingAppropriate.Scheduled; expected.Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Directly; exactly.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Deserved acknowledgment.(in plural dues) A membership fee.

Example sentence: Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

We hope you now know whether to use Owing or Due in your sentence.

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