past due
idiom
1
: late being paid
The bill is past due.
2
: late arriving
He's past due—it's one o'clock and he was supposed to be here at twelve thirty.
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Most of them — nearly 6 million — were between 91 and 180 days past due on their payments, the data says.
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Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 23 May 2025
Taxes are similarly past due for three years on all but a few of the 42 narrow residential lots the couple owns along Michigan and Woodland avenues.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
State lawmakers are going in circles during budget negotiations, which is already past due.
—Jeff Ifrah, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2025
What To Know Some 9.7 million student loan borrowers became past due on their bills after the Covid-era payment pause expired, the New York Fed reported Wednesday.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
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Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 23 May 2025
Taxes are similarly past due for three years on all but a few of the 42 narrow residential lots the couple owns along Michigan and Woodland avenues.
—Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025
State lawmakers are going in circles during budget negotiations, which is already past due.
—Jeff Ifrah, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2025
What To Know Some 9.7 million student loan borrowers became past due on their bills after the Covid-era payment pause expired, the New York Fed reported Wednesday.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Past due.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/past%20due. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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