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1. Caused by; resulting from; because of.

   Rising unemployment due to the economic downturn is spreading.

   The carrier will be held financially responsible for any damage due to reckless handling.

   Due to the rising cost of ingredients, the company decided to change the recipe. [disjunctive use, sometimes proscribed]

   • 1908, “Fatal fall of Wright airship”, in The New York Times:

     The accident was due to the breaking of one of the blades of the propeller on the left side.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see due,‎ to.

   The steamship was due to arrive in the Port of New York tomorrow.

• Although usage of "due to" as a disjunctive preposition is now common, some speakers will object and recommend because of, on account of, as a result of or owing to instead, reserving due for use as an adjective only. Reliable sources (such as Oxford, M-W, etc.) acknowledge this debate, then conclude that more recently this usage of "due to" is widely, although perhaps not entirely, acceptable. Compare also the disjunctive use of based on.
• The conjunction due to the fact that, frequently encountered in business and politics, is generally rejected by style experts as being an unnecessarily wordy synonym of because.

• caused by, as a consequence of, as a result of, because of, thanks to, on account of

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