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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overdue
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
long overdue
▪ Reform of the law is long overdue.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
long
▪ A visit from Mrs Brocklebank was long overdue.
▪ It is clear this system is out of control and that comprehensive reforms are long overdue.
▪ We are long overdue for a complete overhaul of the mathematics curriculum at all levels.
▪ Again, these changes were long overdue and were welcomed by all reasonable people and organizations.
▪ Then again, she was long overdue to write to her sister in Wisconsin.
▪ The environmental movement is long overdue for some seri-ous soul searching and reconciliation with reality.
▪ The changes now taking place in your life are long overdue and positive.
▪ It was long overdue, but they were merely the first of several ecosocial Nobel Laureates.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
overdue mortgage payments
▪ Collette's baby is already two weeks overdue.
▪ I must take these books back to the library - they're overdue.
▪ The rent's three weeks overdue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It is clear this system is out of control and that comprehensive reforms are long overdue.
▪ She has to deliver her disgracefully overdue copy to Outsider.
▪ Tea-time temptress Jenny Hanley: is a comeback overdue?
▪ The National Governors' Association endorsed the final bill, and many governors praised the welfare changes as long overdue.
▪ These works are long overdue for revival in major surroundings and von Otter puts forth an impressive case for their exhumation.
▪ Track renewals are also becoming overdue, with a succession of speed restrictions because of the condition of parts of the line.
▪ We would like to encourage you to participate in this exciting and overdue development.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
overdue

overdue \o"ver*due"\, a. Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival, payment, return, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note; a book overdue at the library; an overdue payment.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overdue

"past the due date," 1845 of bills, 1890 of library books, 1970 of menstrual periods, from over- + due (adj.).

Wiktionary
overdue

a. late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.

WordNet
overdue

adj. past due; not paid at the scheduled time; "an overdue installment"; "a delinquent account" [syn: delinquent]

Wikipedia
Overdue (Kim Possible)
Overdue (The Sandpipers album)

Overdue was the final LP album by The Sandpipers, released by Satril Records in 1977 in the U.K. with catalog number SATL 4006. It was also released in Japan as Singapore Girl with catalog number YX-7145-SR and a different track order. The album was not released in the U.S.

Coming six years after the Sandpipers' last studio album, Overdue contained several songs co-written by group member Jim Brady. Original member Richard Shoff rejoined for the album with Gary Duckworth replacing Ralph Nichols.

Of the three singles released from the album, one, a disco version of Hang On Sloopy, charted at #32 on the U.K. singles chart. Another track, "You're A Great Way To Fly ( Singapore Girl)", was released as a promotional item in 1979 by Singapore Airlines.

Usage examples of "overdue".

She interrupted him by rushing at him as you would rush at a tackling dummy, surrounding him, beginning to soak the suede jacket with all those overdue tears.

He was pecking away at an overdue report, looking up the spelling of a word, when suddenly he ripped the page from his dictionary and threw the book against the wall.

But the call was long overdue, and putting it off any longer would only make it worse.

Although Kip and Cory are overdue to redeclare, they keep the forms as evidence of intent.

Mr Robarts, however, could not but observe, with a most painfully accurate attention, that mention was made, not of an overdue bill, but of overdue bills.

Now that she is overdue by almost six hours we must begin to believe the worst.

Rapier was overdue for command of his own boat but his replacement was late.

But for Pacino, Devilfish was late for an appointment, an appointment overdue for more than twenty years.

Life, is used to inexplicable underlining that turns out to be dog hairs, and apparent shifts from print to Braille where someone overdue for a forepaw nail trimming has checked my copy, but the printouts of my articles about Bobbie and Margaret, retrieved from the floor after the break-in, looked as if they had been used for paper-training.

Tonight, though, Lyda -had some overdue reports to get out, leaving Pidge at loose ends.

Well, she was overdue for a prenatal checkup, and by now it should be safe to go to the Feen and get it.

People in Gilly were speaking of another drought: it was overdue, it must come, perhaps this would be it.

She returned the novel, a week overdue, to the library that stands on Bridges Street, one of those thick, gray Romanesque concoctions that Andrew Carnegie used to give away across America, pillared, arched, rusticated and domed, at once fantastic and dispiriting.

I have some overdue political favors that should generate funding, and I intend to call in those markers now.

Been overdue now for nearly a month, and the searches have turned up nothing.