Dictionary Entry
duty
duty is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which is due; payment. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
That which is due; payment.
- 2noun
That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
- 3noun
Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
- 4noun
Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.
- 5noun
Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
- 6noun
The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
- 7noun
Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
- 8noun
work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons
"the duties of the job"
- 9noun
the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force- John D.Rockefeller Jr
"we must instill a sense of duty in our children"
"every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty"
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- 10noun
a government tax on imports or exports
"they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries"
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