Definitions for duties

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duties du·ty

Spelling: [doo-tee, dyoo-]

IPA: /ˈdu ti, ˈdyu-/

Duties is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in duties (deistu).

Definitions for duties

noun

1. something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
2. the binding or obligatory force of something that is morally or legally right; moral or legal obligation.
3. an action or task required by a person's position or occupation; function:
4. the respectful and obedient conduct due a parent, superior, elder, etc.
5. an act or expression of respect.
6. a task or chore that a person is expected to perform:
7. Military. an assigned task, occupation, or place of service: the military service required of a citizen by a country:
8. Commerce. a specific or ad valorem tax imposed by law on the import or export of goods.
9. a payment, service, etc., imposed and enforceable by law or custom.
10. Chiefly British. tax:
11. Machinery. the amount of work done by an engine per unit amount of fuel consumed. the measure of effectiveness of any machine.
12. Agriculture. the amount of water necessary to provide for the crop in a given area.
13. Baby Talk. bowel movement.

Idioms

1. do duty, to serve the same function; substitute for:
2. off duty, not at one's post or work; at liberty:
3. on duty, at one's post or work; occupied; engaged:

Origin of duties

1250-1300; Middle English du(e)te Anglo-French duete. See due, -ty²

Examples for duties

Stephanopoulos will add the duties of Chief Anchor of ABC News to his responsibilities.

The duties were to be reduced and the system improved, but the principle was to be maintained.

We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.

The office has come to me unsought; I commence its duties untrammeled.

Instead, he sees his ethical obligations as a matter of duties to those with whom we have relationships.

It was simply as to the amount of relaxation the country could bear in the duties.

By most accounts, the Times newsroom has calmed since Baquet resumed his duties full time a few weeks after going under the knife.

The NYPD and his duties required him to miss the graduation on December 20.

Their first act is to lower the duties on the importation of foreign cattle!

The pair had argued, and the assistant ceased performing this most onerous of duties.