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Since do is a verb that means perform an action, and making do is performing an action using available resources, use the meaning of the word do to remind yourself that make do is the standard version of this phrase
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due Definitions and Synonyms
( djuː) adj
( postpositive) expected or appointed to be present or arrive: the train is now due
As shown in recent case law (6) this must be done in a conscious way with focus on the specific requirements of the legislation
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It may also have application in sufficiency of consideration in the law of contracts
An example of due is when a baby is expected to arrive
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Come on, give credit where credit is due! I came up with that idea, and you know it! A due definition, together; in unison
: as a result of : because of due to the complaints of uptight parents he lost his job — Herbert Gold
The use of due to as a prepositional phrase meaning ‘because of,’ as in he had to retire due to an injury first appeared in print in 1897, and traditional grammarians have opposed this prepositional usage for more than a century on the grounds that it is a misuse of the adjectival phrase due to in the sense of ‘attributable to, likely or