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Sounds | duw'tiy; dyuw'tiy |
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Rhymes | ability, abnormality, absentee, and 620 more rhymes in tiy at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons. |
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Narrower | job, task, chore; function, office, part, role; assignment, duty assignment |
Broader | work |
Meaning | The social force that binds you to your obligations and the courses of action demanded by that force. |
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Examples | "we must instill a sense of duty in our children"; every possession, a duty"- John D.Rockefeller Jr |
Synonyms | responsibility, obligation |
Narrower | job; guardianship, keeping, safekeeping; moral obligation; noblesse oblige; burden of proof; civic duty, civic responsibility; filial duty; imperative; incumbency; legal duty; line of duty; white man's burden; prerequisite, requirement; requirement, demand |
Broader | social control |
Meaning | A government tax on imports or exports. |
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Synonyms | tariff |
Narrower | customs, customs duty, custom, impost; tonnage, tunnage, tonnage duty; octroi; revenue tariff; protective tariff; import duty; export duty; countervailing duty |
Broader | indirect tax |