Definition of "due date" []

• The date on which a pregnant woman is expected to give birth. (noun)
• The date of payment in financial arrangements. (noun)
• The date by which a book (or other item) borrowed from a library must be returned. (noun)
• The date by which a task is supposed to be completed. (noun)

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• "Anyway, after Lexi’s quickie birth, my doctors decided that perhaps I should have labor induced a couple days before my due date for any future pregnancies to help ensure that I would actually be at the hospital when I gave birth."
• "Sometime before the due date something will come up and steal time that was supposed to be spent on the assignment—an unexpected quiz, a stomach-ache, a bad day."