respect

pay your respects

to express your admiration or friendly feeling for someone. First I paid my respects to her parents and then went into to town to see some other people. Fans waited in the cold to pay their final respects to this fine athlete.

Usage notes: sometimes used in the form pay your final respects to express your admiration for someone who has died

See also: pay

with all due respect

with the admiration that is owed. With all due respect, I think there are some facts you have not considered.

Usage notes: used to disagree politely with someone

See also: all, due

with respect to something

considering or relating to something. There is another question with respect to this plan that must be answered before any decision can be made. Do you really believe your memory is clear in respect to what happened?

in terms of something