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Webster's English Dictionary

duty

n. [From Due.]1. That which is due; payment. ()

When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. (Tyndale.)

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2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory. ()

Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. (Hallam.)

3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. ()

With records sweet of duties done. (Keble.)

To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. (Hallam.)

Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. (C. J. Smith.)

4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. (Shak.)

5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. (Shak.)

6. (Engin.) 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). ()

7. (Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods. ()

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Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See Ad valorem. -- Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market. -- On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task. ()

n. [L., fr. duo two + vir man.] (Rom. Antiq.) One of two Roman officers or magistrates united in the same public functions. ()