Due
Due adjective - Having reached the date at which payment is required.
Usage example: the loan is due next April
Owing
Owing adjective - Not yet paid.
Usage example: there's one bill still owing
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The Unfought: Sanchez is hunted down by the Warriors due to him owing them money.
Source: Video Game / The Warriors - Owing to the vagaries of the walker system, you risk losing a lot of workers to an entire street being deserted due to a priestess failing to walk down it sufficiently often.
Source: Command & Conquer Economy - This was in part due to it receiving a limited theatrical run owing to its subject matter (it came out almost immediately after 9/11).
Source: Acclaimed Flop
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Owing and Due. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/due/owing
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