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duty   (TTS Sound)

The noun duty has 3 senses

• duty, responsibility, obligation -- (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force; "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; "every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr)


• duty -- (work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job")


• duty, tariff -- (a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries")