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What (who) is duty - definition

COMMITMENT OR OBLIGATION TO SOMEONE OR SOMETHING OR TO PERFORM AN ACTION ON THE BEHALF OF
Duties; Moral duty; Ethical duty; Legal duty

Duty         
·noun That which is due; payment.
II. Duty ·noun Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
III. Duty ·noun Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.
IV. Duty ·noun Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
V. Duty ·noun That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
VI. Duty ·noun Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
VII. Duty ·noun 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).
Duty         
· A tax imposed on imports by the customs authority of a country. Duties are generally based on the value of the goods (ad valorem duties), some other factors such as weight or quantity (specific duties), or a combination of value and other factors (compound duties).
· A tax levied by a government on the import, export or use and consumption of goods.
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n.
1.
What one ought to do, what one is bound or under obligation to do.
2.
Service, business, function, office.
3.
Tax, impost, toll, custom, excise.

Wikipedia

Duty

A duty (from "due" meaning "that which is owing"; Old French: deu, did, past participle of devoir; Latin: debere, debitum, whence "debt") is a commitment or expectation to perform some action in general or if certain circumstances arise. A duty may arise from a system of ethics or morality, especially in an honor culture. Many duties are created by law, sometimes including a codified punishment or liability for non-performance. Performing one's duty may require some sacrifice of self-interest.

Cicero, an early Roman philosopher who discusses duty in his work “On Duty", suggests that duties can come from four different sources:

  1. as a result of being a human
  2. as a result of one's particular place in life (one's family, one's country, one's job)
  3. as a result of one's character
  4. as a result of one's own moral expectations for oneself

The specific duties imposed by law or culture vary considerably, depending on jurisdiction, religion, and social normalities.

Pronunciation examples for duty
1. Duty calls.
Hogfather (2006)
2. of duty.
Globalizing Punjabi Music _ Malkit Singh _ Talks at Google
3. You have a custodial duty, a duty of care,
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4. of the double duty.
Edward Norton _ Motherless Brooklyn _ Talks at Google
5. That's their duty cycle.
Thinking Straight in an Age of Information Overload _ Daniel Levitin _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of duty
1. Others will be active duty military members, active duty National Guard and National Guard Reserve members.
2. The official said the duty was based on Belarus paying a duty equivalent to 70 percent of Russia‘s fuel oil export duty to other destinations.
3. He referred to the Marines‘ current duty in Iraq‘s Anbar province as almost like occupation duty.
4. We have done our duty, and we will keep on doing our duty.
5. It is your duty and our duty to defeat this terror.