Definition of Duty

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Definition of Duty

Duty

That which is due; payment.

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

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

Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.

Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.

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).

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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Duty Quotations

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson

Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald Reagan

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald Reagan

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mohandas Gandhi

Duty Translations

duty in Afrikaans is verpligting, plig
duty in Danish is pligt
duty in Dutch is verplichting, plicht
duty in Finnish is velvollisuus
duty in French is obligation
duty in German is Pflicht, Pflicht, Verpflichtung
duty in Italian is dogana
duty in Latin is officium
duty in Norwegian is toll, plikt
duty in Portuguese is dever
duty in Spanish is deb, deber

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