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duty
noun as in responsibility, assignment
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noun as in tax on foreign goods
noun as in moral obligation
Example Sentences
The image, captured by photographer Millie Pilkington, was taken as the King returned to public duties following his cancer diagnosis and treatment.
With all the grant money used to purchase the building there was nothing left to pay stamp duty – let alone renovate its nine floors.
“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.”
Like juries, these assemblies comprise ordinary citizens called to a public duty, who tend to demonstrate a remarkable ability to reason together.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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