duty
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
duty/ˈdjuːti/
▶noun (pl. duties)
- 1 a moral or legal obligation.
- 2 a task required as part of one's job.
■ (duties) performance of prescribed church services by a priest or minister.
- 3 a payment levied on the import, export, manufacture, or sale of goods.
■ Brit. a payment levied on the transfer of property, for licences, and for the legal recognition of documents.
- 4 technical the measure of an engine's effectiveness in units of work done per unit of fuel.
– phrases
do duty as (or for) serve or act as a substitute for.
on (or off) duty engaged (or not engaged) in one's regular work.
do duty as (or for) serve or act as a substitute for.
on (or off) duty engaged (or not engaged) in one's regular work.
'duty' also found in these Oxford entries:
abdicate
- acquit
- active list
- ad valorem
- assign
- assignment
- baton
- beat
- behove
- bonded warehouse
- bounden
- call
- corvette
- countervailing duty
- custom house
- customs
- death duty
- debauch
- delinquency
- delinquent
- deontic
- deontology
- dereliction
- detail
- devoir
- discharge
- docket
- doorkeeper
- doorman
- drawback
- duck
- duteous
- dutiful
- duty-bound
- duty-free
- duty-paid
- estate duty
- evade
- exciseman
- excuse
- exigible
- ex officio
- exonerate
- fall
- fatigue
- free port
- French leave
- furlough
- Gesellschaft
