1. overdue - Adjective
2. overdue - Adjective Satellite
Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists. Phyllis Schlafly
To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served. Solomon Ortiz
There's just too many people being bullied, too many people's lives being wrecked. This is something that is long overdue. We all have gay and lesbian people in our families, and these are good people. Howard Stern
Impulsively, I lean forward and kiss him, stopping his word. This is probably overdue anyway since he's right, we are supposed to be madly in love. Suzanne Collins
I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. [...] I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue. Ray Comfort
This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. L. Neil Smith