Usually means: Obligation arising from moral, legal responsibilities.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. duty: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. duty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. duty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. duty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. duty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Duty, duty: Wordnik
  7. duty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Duty, duty: Wiktionary
  9. duty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. duty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. duty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. duty: Dictionary.com
  13. duty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. duty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Duty (album), Duty (criminal law), Duty (disambiguation), Duty (economics), Duty (film), Duty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Duty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. duty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. duty: Rhymezone
  19. duty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. duty: Free Dictionary
  21. duty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. duty: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. duty: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. duty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Business (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. duty: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. duty: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. duty: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Duty: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Duty: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Duty: Investopedia
  11. Glossary of International Trade Terms (No longer online)
  12. duty: Legal dictionary
  13. duty: Financial dictionary
  14. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  15. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  17. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  18. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  19. DUTY: Accounting Glossary
  20. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Duty (disambiguation), Duty (economics), duty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. duty: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  2. duty: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Duty: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. duty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. duty: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being at work and responsible for or doing a particular task.
noun:  (countable) A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
noun:  (obsolete) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
noun:  (obsolete) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
noun:  (engineering) The efficiency of an engine in work done per unit of fuel; particularly, the number of pounds of water which a steam pumping engine can raise one foot by burning one bushel or hundredweight of coal.
noun:  (euphemistic) The act of urination or defecation, especially for a dog.
noun:  A surname.

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