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synonyms for duty
- 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
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How to use duty in a sentence
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.
Why you shouldn’t get a covid antibody test after your vaccine | Lindsey Bever | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostOn 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.
How We Found Pricey Provisions in New Jersey Police Contracts | by Agnes Chang, Jeff Kao and Agnel Philip, ProPublica, and Andrew Ford, Asbury Park Press | February 8, 2021 | ProPublica
The former chief, Philip Zacche, pleaded guilty to taking money for extra duty work he didn’t do.
How the Police Bank Millions Through Their Union Contracts | by Andrew Ford, Asbury Park Press, and Agnes Chang, Jeff Kao and Agnel Philip, ProPublica | February 8, 2021 | ProPublicaThe 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.
Carolyn Hax: Left behind at the holidays? Start setting your life’s itinerary. | Carolyn Hax | February 5, 2021 | Washington PostIn his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President | Pierre Assouline | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTOur duty is to make sure that they realize that the Prophet is not avenged.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Our Duty Is to Keep Charlie Hebdo Alive | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTA 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.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside | Justin Rohrlich | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxEach did his duty, or was adjured to do it, in the "state of life to which it had pleased God to call him."
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe 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!"
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