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| NOUN | 1 | duty | Work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons |
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| 2 | duty, responsibility, obligation | The social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force | |
| 3 | duty, tariff | A government tax on imports or exports |
| Sounds | duw'tiy; dyuw'tiy |
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| Rhymes | ability, abnormality, absentee, and 622 more rhymes in tiy... |
| Meaning | Work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons. |
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| Broader | work |
| Narrower | job, task, chore; function, office, part, role; assignment, duty assignment |
| Adjectives | duteous; duteous |
| Meaning | The social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force. |
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| Examples | "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr |
| Synonyms | responsibility, obligation |
| Broader | social control |
| Narrower | job; guardianship, keeping, safekeeping; moral obligation; noblesse oblige; burden of proof; civic duty, civic responsibility; filial duty; imperative; incumbency; legal duty; line of duty; white man's burden; prerequisite, requirement; requirement, demand |
| Adjectives | duteous; duteous |
| Meaning | A government tax on imports or exports. |
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| Synonyms | tariff |
| Broader | indirect tax |
| Narrower | customs, customs duty, custom, impost; tonnage, tunnage, tonnage duty; octroi; revenue tariff; protective tariff; import duty; export duty; countervailing duty |
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