{
  "id": "due.expected",
  "term": "due",
  "sense": "expected",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "due",
  "domain": "adjective",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "something that is required to happen at a particular time",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "required.obligation",
      "happen.event-occurrence",
      "particular.specific"
    ],
    "interaction": "When a requirement is tied to a specific time, it creates an expected occurrence.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal expectation",
      "scheduled obligation",
      "specificity of timing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station must dock with a Progress supply ship every 150 days or risk life-support failure.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Halley's Comet appears every 76 years, last in 1986, next due in 2061.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution requires a presidential election every four years, next due in November 2024.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "symmetry-versus-regularity-licence.licence"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "due",
    "dues"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts happen.event-occurrence and particular.specific to align the emergence record with the definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-due.expected"
}