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What does overdue mean?

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Adjective
  1. Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
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Now the former England Under-21 is hoping his goal and City's triumph will mark an overdue lift-off for both himself and the club.
The international laws that served us in the aftermath of the Second World War are overdue for reform.
Similarly overdue is a more general debate on the limits, or lack thereof, of political debate.
Nicky Henderson's gelding is at his best on right-handed tracks and, after a series of good efforts in defeat this season, is overdue a win.
But perhaps now we'll be given overdue respite from the rantings of those intent on persuading us he was some kind of miracle-worker.
The coordinating committee at that time predicted that the next revision would be a rewrite in 1997-8, so a new version is overdue.

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