do duty as

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Having reached Safeway with no fatalities, Stassin and I ordered our respective Loomos to trail us, so that they could do duty as shopping carts.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2018

The portion allotted to Dave was removed, ostensibly to keep it warm for him, but reproduced to do duty as a second helping for Dolly.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

Masters, midshipmen, and pursers must do duty as seamen.

From Down the Rhine Young America in Germany by Optic, Oliver

It was one part of Mabberly’s plan that he and his friends should do duty as part of the crew.

From The Eagle Cliff by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Assistant-surgeon Crawford, having no sick in hospital, generously offered to do duty as officer of the day, and his offer was gladly accepted.

From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner