duty 的定义
plural du·ties.
- something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
- the binding or obligatory force of something that is morally or legally right; moral or legal obligation.
- an action or task required by a person's position or occupation; function: the duties of a clergyman.
- the respectful and obedient conduct due a parent, superior, elder, etc.
- an act or expression of respect.
- a task or chore that a person is expected to perform: It's your duty to do the dishes.
- Military. an assigned task, occupation, or place of service: He was on radar duty for two years.the military service required of a citizen by a country: After graduation, he began his duty.
- Commerce. a specific or ad valorem tax imposed by law on the import or export of goods.
- a payment, service, etc., imposed and enforceable by law or custom.
- Chiefly British. tax: income duty.
- Machinery. the amount of work done by an engine per unit amount of fuel consumed.the measure of effectiveness of any machine.
- Agriculture. the amount of water necessary to provide for the crop in a given area.
- Baby Talk. bowel movement.
duty 近义词
responsibility, assignment
duty 的近义词 40 个
- burden
- business
- charge
- chore
- commission
- commitment
- contract
- function
- job
- need
- obligation
- office
- role
- service
- task
- work
- calling
- committal
- devoir
- dues
- engagement
- hook
- load
- millstone
- mission
- must
- occupation
- onus
- pains
- part
- province
- station
- string
- trouble
- trust
- undertaking
- weight
- minding the store
- ought
- taking care of business
duty 的反义词 16 个
tax on foreign goods
moral obligation
由duty构成的短语
- duty bound
- above and beyond (the call of duty)
- active duty
更多duty例句
- With more than 30 million people in the United States at least partially vaccinated against covid-19, you may wonder whether the shot has done its duty, arming your immune system to fight off infection.
- On the first Tuesday in December, the texts to Teen Line stacked up faster than the six volunteers on duty could answer them.
- Extra duty provisions were tagged whenever the contract acknowledged the existence of such an arrangement.
- The former chief, Philip Zacche, pleaded guilty to taking money for extra duty work he didn’t do.
- The story you tell is of deferring to others, out of an unspoken sense of duty — that this is how marriage or family work so you’re going to do your part.
- In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
- Our duty is to make sure that they realize that the Prophet is not avenged.
- A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
- The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
- They selected an “easy mark” who turned out to be an off-duty NYC Housing Authority cop named James Carragher.
- And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.
- Each did his duty, or was adjured to do it, in the "state of life to which it had pleased God to call him."
- The dead bodies of the two men were guarded until next day, for justice to do its duty.
- That alone is being sent to your Majesty as a report, in order to inform you of everything, as is my duty.
- His duty it was to stand at the head of the scalding trough, watch in hand, to "time" the length of the scald, crying "Hog in!"