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duty

noun as in tax on foreign goods

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The image, captured by photographer Millie Pilkington, was taken as the King returned to public duties following his cancer diagnosis and treatment.

From BBC

With all the grant money used to purchase the building there was nothing left to pay stamp duty – let alone renovate its nine floors.

From BBC

“Only Yoon’s immediate removal from official duties and impeachment can alleviate the anger of the people and South Korea’s plummeting international credit rating.”

As Reuters notes, “Trump's overall tariff plans… would push U.S. import duties back up to 1930s levels, stoke inflation, collapse U.S.-China trade, draw retaliation, and drastically reorder supply chains.”

From Salon

Like juries, these assemblies comprise ordinary citizens called to a public duty, who tend to demonstrate a remarkable ability to reason together.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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