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duties

[doo-tee, dyoo-]

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noun, plural -ties.

something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.

the binding or obligatory force of something that is morally or legally right; moral or legal obligation.

an action or task required by a person's position or occupation; function: the duties of a clergyman.

the respectful and obedient conduct due a parent, superior, elder, etc.

an act or expression of respect.

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a task or chore that a person is expected to perform: It's your duty to do the dishes.

Military.

an assigned task, occupation, or place of service: He was on radar duty for two years.

the military service required of a citizen by a country: After graduation, he began his duty.

Commerce. a specific or ad valorem tax imposed by law on the import or export of goods.

a payment, service, etc., imposed and enforceable by law or custom.

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Chiefly British. tax: income duty.

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Machinery.

the amount of work done by an engine per unit amount of fuel consumed.

the measure of effectiveness of any machine.

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Agriculture. the amount of water necessary to provide for the crop in a given area.

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Baby Talk. bowel movement.

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do duty, to serve the same function; substitute for: bookcases that do duty as room dividers.

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off duty, not at one's post or work; at liberty: They spent their days off duty in hiking and fishing.

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on duty, at one's post or work; occupied; engaged: He was suspended from the force for being drunk while on duty.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English du(e)te < Anglo-French duete. See due, -ty²

Synonyms
1. Duty, obligation refer to what one feels bound to do. Duty is what one performs, or avoids doing, in fulfillment of the permanent dictates of conscience, piety, right, or law: duty to one's country; one's duty to tell the truth, to raise children properly. An obligation is what one is bound to do to fulfill the dictates of usage, custom, or propriety, and to carry out a particular, specific, and often personal promise or agreement: financial obligations. 3. responsibility, business. 4. deference.

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It means fulfilling the duties of your contract or job description to the best of your ability.

Customs duties have fallen as trade barriers have been reduced.

Both take turns incubating their single egg and defending the nest, and both share duties in rearing the hatchling.

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It means fulfilling the duties of your contract or job description to the best of your ability.

Customs duties have fallen as trade barriers have been reduced.

Both take turns incubating their single egg and defending the nest, and both share duties in rearing the hatchling.

Human testers traditionally have pulled such pungent duties.

Lincoln spent more time on his duties as commander in chief than anything.

One by one, our chickens are stepping up to their duties and beginning to lay eggs.

Meanwhile, purely robotic systems will take over other space duties.

Additional duties include cadet counseling and support of cadet extracurricular activities.

Yet it has also led to an expansion of their duties and powers.

The members come from diverse musical backgrounds, sharing singing duties and swapping instruments throughout their.

All shared the same job duties and work environment.

Rowley really focuses on counterfeiting and cyber crime and devotes time to the protection duties.

Other duties may include writing complex stored procedures, load performance, optimization.

It will help prevent difficulties in performing daily duties due to lack of understanding or inconsistent methods.

Three years later new imports were taking nearly half the market, despite high duties.

Langurs often share babysitting duties within a close-knit group of females and their offspring.

Fulfilling your duties as a scientist does not excuse you from your duties as a member of the human community.

Bowstern's duties have ranged from chopping and loading bait for crab pots to setting seine nets for salmon.

Working from home means that they get to see my daily duties up close so they have a.

They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of one so.

Two rises in excise duties on fuel, alcohol and cigarettes in under three months have caused grumbling.

By doing this and encouraging our citizens to engage in the duties of life with all their heart and.

Some needed to be able to read, write, and do sums simply because their duties necessitated such.

Some think they should be compensated extra for taking on duties not included in their job description.

Duties include teaching advising, research and service& grant writing.

Second, imports also fell sharply last year, thanks in part to a welter of anti-dumping duties.

Hatchlings remain in the nest for up to a month, and the parents alternate foraging and brooding duties.

Even if those hosts shut down, the network remains largely intact, and other hosts can take over those duties.

Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the performance of duties.

Customs duties have been lowered substantially, but remain high by international standards.

He was a bit shy but performed his duties with a calm demeanor".

Duties include receiving and processing incoming intelligence reports and messages and maintaining intelligence records and files.

Additional duties will include supervising honours and postgraduate coursework and research higher degree students.

It is indeed desirable to establish a clear division of duties between business and government.

The males and females swap parenting duties and the exhausted males go in search of food themselves.

To give duties to woman is to have her lose all her fecundating power.

It does not hinder her in performing her job duties.

If that happens, both would have the right to levy huge duties on the offending products.

Kossa-Kossa left the troop, as planned, to return to his real-life duties.

Drivers can also take over the steering duties if they start having a panic attack after ceding control to a computer.

At the same time, there are duties that everyone tries to dump on junior faculty members.

One reason directors take their duties more seriously is that they have begun to realise the perils of getting it wrong.

Marijan's duties may include mollifying a volcano-dwelling ogre.

But there is no time to attack or hinder an officer in his or her duties.

Surely the full-time faculty members would want their summers free of teaching duties.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods.

The young faculty member was suddenly and mysteriously removed midsemester from all teaching and student-advising duties.

Its new duties could draw it into political fights that could compromise its independence.

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Word Origin & History

duty

c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. duete, from O.Fr. deu "due, owed," from V.L. *debutus, from L. debitus, pp. of debere "to owe." Related: Duties. The sense of "tax or fee in imports, exports, etc." is from late 15c.; duty-free as a noun is attested from 1958.

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duty definition

A tax charged by a government, especially on an import.

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