Crossword clues for duties
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duty \Du"ty\, n.; pl. Duties. [From Due.]
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That which is due; payment. [Obs. as signifying a material thing.]
When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty.
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That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country.
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Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
With records sweet of duties done.
--Keble.To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty.
--Hallam.Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them.
--C. J. Smith. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.
--Shak.Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. ``My duty to you.''
--Shak.(Engin.) 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).
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(Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
Note: An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct tax. [U.S.]
Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See Ad valorem.
Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market.
On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. (duty English)
Usage examples of "duties".
Frail Frill, one of her most loyal officers, had asked to be released from his duties planetside because it was causing jealousy among the personnel who had been denied permission to downside.
He's been able to train useless idiots to perform simple duties perfectly.
On the basis of the most exhaustive tests in our means, Harlan is both mentally and physically capable of any duties or offices required of him by Lothar.
That he has allowed himself to be drafted to resume the onerous duties of state is indeed a credit to his patriotism and honor.
Patients were able to do for themselves, perform duties and relieve society of the burden of their care.
Once they had been able for the duties of adult males, they had both been too busy for wives and children.
Perhaps you're more suited for other duties "If I may suggest an alternative for Commander Greene, Admiral,” Captain Castleton said, her manner devoid of emotion, "the Hamilton has an opening for an executive officer.
Sometimes Bonnard acted as recorder for Bakkun when administration duties prevented Kai from field-work beside the heavy-world geologist.
Lunzie had kept pretty much to herself and her duties before the mutiny.
He had other duties which had not yet been reassigned to an officer of lesser rank that could keep him at the complex for four or five shifts on end.
Vir, offshoot of a golden-complected breed with heavily lidded eyes, was an environmental specialist who shared security duties with Dondara.
Elessa, charming but not strictly pretty, held the double duties of synthesiser tech and botanist.
On watch, you'll have the usual standing duties, but you can spend part of most watches with the engineering crew.
As far as some were concerned, the most troublesome heavyworld political unit, outspoken to the point of rudeness about the duties of the lightweights to their stronger cousins.
Dupaynil had come up with nothing definite, and although she had moved both the most likely suspects away from their usual duties, that didn't make her feel any safer.