duty

[Du·ty]

When you've done your duty, you've done what you're supposed to and met your responsibilities. Your sense of duty as a citizen might compel you to vote; it might also keep you from voting twice.

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That which is due; payment.

Noun
work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job"

Noun
the social force that binds you to your obligations and the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- Jo

Noun
a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries"

n.
That which is due; payment.

n.
That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.

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

n.
Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.

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

n.
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).

n.
Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.

Duty

Du"ty , n.; pl. Duties . [From Due.] 1. That which is due; payment. [Obs. as signifying a material thing.]

When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty.

2. 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.

3. 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.

To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty.

Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them.

4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. Shak. 5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. "My duty to you." Shak. 6. (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). 7. (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. &hand; 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.

That which is due; payment.

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Usage Examples

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

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Other Usage Examples

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.