overdue 的定义
- past due, as a delayed train or a bill not paid by the assigned date; late: two overdue library books.
- too long awaited; needed or expected for some time: Improvements in our highway system are long overdue.
- more than sufficiently advanced, mature, or ready: That country is overdue for industrial development.
overdue 近义词
late, behind schedule
更多overdue例句
- Doing so not only would satisfy inmates’ requests, but also would avoid still further delays and bring long overdue closure for victims’ families.
- By the early 1990s, it had not undergone an update since 1975, and Scribner, along with some readers, had concluded that one was long overdue.
- The hikers were reported overdue Tuesday evening near Bear Mountain in Chugiak, outside Anchorage.
- The requirement of masks in federal facilities and airports is long overdue.
- This plan would make real investments in child care and paid family leave, while also giving us the financial relief that is so long overdue.
- Or perhaps next September is too long to wait for a demonstration of appreciation that is already overdue.
- They converted what should have been a long-overdue moral reckoning into a shallow and hysterical ratings bonanza.
- By the time virologists confirmed it was Ebola—in this case, four days later—isolation was long overdue.
- And if horse racing endures and survives, it will be the result of an overdue focus on the august animal that defines the pastime.
- But recent Emmy history—particularly in this category—tells us that being overdue is irrelevant.
- Also an overdue note accepted or indorsed is regarded as payable on demand, so far as the maker is concerned.
- I understood vaguely of notes overdue, and somewhat of mortgages on our lands, our house, our crops.
- I went to the Junior, told him my predicament, and he kindly offered to wait for his debt, though the note was overdue.
- I'll say this for Sonntag—he's been overdue for a croaking this long time.
- The Great White Father had forgotten them, he knew, for their rations were long overdue and there was hunger in the camp.