Definition of duty

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Duty (n.) Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty..

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Faithless :: Faithless (a.) Not true to allegiance, duty, or vows; perfidious; trecherous; disloyal; not of true fidelity; inconstant, as a husband or a wife..
Effrontery :: Effrontery (n.) Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
Tariff :: Tariff (n.) The duty, or rate of duty, so imposed; as, the tariff on wool; a tariff of two cents a pound..
Tronator :: Tronator (n.) An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.
Remembrancer :: Remembrancer (n.) A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time..
Sin :: Sin (n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against..
Limiter :: Limiter (n.) A friar licensed to beg within certain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district..
Trierarchy :: Trierarchy (n.) The office duty of a trierarch.
Spare :: Spare (a.) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations..
Hostler :: Hostler (n.) The person who has the care of horses at an inn or stable; hence, any one who takes care of horses; a groom; -- so called because the innkeeper formerly attended to this duty in person..
Quit :: Quit (a.) To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay..
Examiner :: Examiner (n.) One who examines, tries, or inspects; one who interrogates; an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination; as, an examiner of students for a degree; an examiner in chancery, in the patent office, etc..
Guaranty :: Guaranty (n.) In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security..
Rivage :: Rivage (n.) A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.
Serve :: Serve (v. i.) To be in service; to do duty; to discharge the requirements of an office or employment. Specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc..
Dutiable :: Dutiable (a.) Subject to the payment of a duty; as dutiable goods.
Truant :: Truant (a.) Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy..
Defection :: Defection (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding..
Pontage :: Pontage (n.) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.
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