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due to or owing to

due to or owing to

due to or owing to

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What is the conventional use of these two expressions ? Are they equivalent ?

RE: due to or owing to

A plane can be due to arrive at a certain time but would not be owing to arrive.

Barry1961

RE: due to or owing to

If that plane arrived 15 minutes late the passengers would be due to pick up their baggage 15 minutes late. That would be either due to or owing to the plane arriving late.

RE: due to or owing to

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due to
prep.
Because of.

USAGE NOTE   Due to has been widely used for many years as a compound preposition like owing to, but some critics have insisted that due should be used only as an adjective. According to this view, it is incorrect to say The concert was canceled due to the rain, but acceptable to say The cancellation of the concert was due to the rain, where due continues to function as an adjective modifying cancellation. This seems a fine point, however, and since due to is widely used and understood, there seems little reason to avoid using it as a preposition.

RE: due to or owing to

Right.  "Due to" is coming to mean "owing to" or "because of" but a strict grammarian would insist that it shouldn't.  (Sometimes I'm in that camp, sometimes I don't care.)

Personally I don't like "owing to"; something sounds overformal and informal at the same time, as if someone is trying unsuccessfully to be fancy.  "Because of" is just fine.

Hg

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