Word Finder - duty

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That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.

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We don't have a duty to keep you here.

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The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task.

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I’m on duty from 6 pm to 6 am.

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A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.

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One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.

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Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.

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The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).

The sheriff has a duty to investigate.

I'm off duty, you know.

He was on light duty, working only with small animals; and part time.

It was Carl's duty to sit outside of the king's bedroom and be ready to serve him at any time.

I'll agree, if I won't be second rung to your duty or other women.

Our business is to do our duty, to fight and not to think!

I have a duty to the people.

If it was natural for Helen to ask such questions, it was my duty to answer them.

I did those things because they're my duty.

This right and duty became a jurisdiction in all testamentary causes.

Surely such sleuthing and cleverness deserves more reward than hiding in the bushes and watching the dogs of law ineptly do their duty.

In 1894 the Russian government enforced new customs regulations, by which a heavy duty is levied on Anglo-Indian manufactures and produce, excepting pepper, ginger and drugs, imported into Russian Asia by way of Persia; and the importation of green teas is altogether prohibited except by way of Batum, Baku, Uzunada and the Transcaspian railway.

A patrol car returned him to duty.

He cared for her, but she didn't think he'd ever let anything get between him and his duty.

He clenched his jaw, torn between his heart and his duty.

Sean died well, doing his duty.

Not to mention your campaign manager job and jury duty.

Dean figured Fred was making a last ditch effort for a dispensation from his public duty.

Us upstairs maids are on duty today.

You, sir, are officially off duty.

You know he loves you, but he has a duty to fulfill, he said.

This recourse in England sometimes took the form of the appeal to the king given by the Constitutions of Clarendon, just mentioned, and later by the acts of Henry VIII.; sometimes that of suing for writs of prohibition or mandamus, which were granted by the king's judges, either to restrain excess of jurisdiction, or to compel the spiritual judge to exercise jurisdiction in cases where it seemed to the temporal court that he was failing in his duty.

Ramsay, however, doubts this (The Church in the Roman Empire, London, 1893), and argues that it was due to a long series of instructions to provincial governors (mandata, not decreta) who interpreted their duty largely in conformity with the attitude of the reigning emperor.

With the growth of the Oxford Movement in the English Church, the practice of observing Lent was revived; and, though no rules for fasting are authoritatively laid down, the duty of abstinence is now very generally inculcated by bishops and clergy, either as a discipline or as an exercise in self-denial.

These plastids are especially charged with the duty of manufacturing carbohydrates from the carbon dioxide which the air contains, and which is absorbed from it after it has entered the intercellular passages and has so reached the cells containing the plastids.

Mr. Dean, would you please discuss the circumstances of your injury in the line of duty?

He didn't want Angel to feel that way, not when it was his duty to take care of her.

Monica Cutler had performed every duty but setting type at the Parkside Sentinel for the past 20 years.

He'd tell you to fulfill your duty, Damian.

My duty was to take care of you.

He had expressed an opinion that the true art of memory was not to be gained by technical devices, but by a philosophical apprehension of things; and the cardinal de Berulle, the founder of the Congregation of the Oratory, was so struck by the tone of the remarks as to impress upon the speaker the duty of spending his life in the examination of truth.

The administration of the act was entrusted to the pharmaceutical society, and the duty of prosecuting unauthorized practitioners has been performed by the society ever since, without any pecuniary assistance from the state, although the legal expenses involved in prosecution amount to a considerable portion of its income.

Rather it was implicitly contained in the Torah, and the duty of the teacher was to show this.

As observed above, it was the duty of the teachers to show the connexion of practical rules with the written Law, the more so since the Sadducees rejected the authority of the oral law as such.

In addition to this there is compulsory service in the National Guard (a) in the first class, consisting of men between seventeen and thirty years of age, liable for service with the standing army, and numbering some 15,000; (b) in the second class, for departmental service only, except in so far as it may be drawn upon to make up losses in the more active units in time of war, consisting of men from thirty to forty-five years of age, and (c) in the third class, for local garrison duty, consisting of men between forty-five and sixty years old.

In 1893 an act was passed by parliament giving the Board power to interfere if or when representations are made to them by or on behalf of any servant or class of servants of a railway company that the hours of work are unduly long, or do not provide sufficient intervals of uninterrupted rest between the periods of duty, or sufficient relief in respect of Sunday duty.

In 1793, when the excise duty was 21d.

He received the earldom of Hereford with the special duty of pushing into Wales.

It should have been sent in triplicate at least, and it was Gneisenau's duty to repeat the message directly he assumed temporary command.

In the first place, most of the reductions of duty on manufactured articles were of little practical significance.

In 1901, to aid in meeting the expenses of the South African war, a moderate revenue duty was again imposed on sugar; and in 1902 the shilling duty on corn and flour (abolished in 1869) was restored, but again taken off in 1903.

All these countries made reductions of duty on French products, while France admitted other products at the rates of the British treaty tariff.

In 1853 a treaty between the Zollverein and Austria brought about reciprocal reductions of duty between these two parties.

The second alternative was accepted, largely and low because Austria did not vigorously support the South tariff, German states, and in 1865 the Zollverein as a whole 186x' concluded a commercial treaty with France, bringing about important reductions of duty.

Other advances of tion rein- duty were made in later years, especially on grain; stated, and thus the policy of Germany has become dis 1879.

The nullification movement led in 1833 to the well-known compromise, by which the rates of duty as established by the Act of 1832 were to be gradually reduced, reaching in 1842 a general level of 20 per cent.

But the reductions of duty made under it were never effectively carried out.

Nevertheless, the advances then made were of little importance as compared with the far-reaching increases of duty during the Civil War.

It deserves to be noted that in 1872 an important step was also taken towards removing entirely the duties on purely revenue articles, tea and coffee being then admitted free of duty.

In 1869 the duty on copper was raised.