duty

duty
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Requisite service
Nouns
1. duty, moral obligation, accountability, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty; call of duty; allegiance, fealty, tie; engagement, promise; part, function, calling, business.
2. (moral duty) morality, morals, ethics; Ten Commandments; conscientiousness, conscience, inward monitor, still small voice; sense of duty, virtue; noblesse oblige.
3. (societal duty) propriety, fitness, the [proper] thing (see agreement).
4. (fulfilling duty) observance, fulfillment, discharge, acquittal, performance (see completion).
Verbs
1. be the duty of, be incumbent on, be responsible, behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on, lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door, rest with, rest on the shoulders of.
2. take upon oneself, promise, be bound to, be sponsor for; incur a responsibility; be or stand under obligation; have to answer for, be answerable for, owe it to oneself. Informal, pay one's dues.
3. impose a duty, enjoin, require, exact (see compulsion); pass the buck, let George do it.
4. enter upon, perform, observe, fulfill, discharge, satisfy, or acquit oneself of a duty or an obligation; adhere to; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do one's duty; be on good behavior, mind one's Ps and Qs. Informal, hold the baby.
Adjectives
1. obligatory, binding, imperative, behooving, incumbent on; obligated, under obligation; obliged, bound, or tied by; saddled with; due to, beholden to, bound to, indebted to, duty bound, tied down; compromised; amenable, liable, accountable, responsible, answerable; right, meet, due; moral, ethical, casuistical, conscientious.
2. dutiful, duteous, loyal, diligent, obedient, submissive. See obedience.
Adverbs — dutifully, in duty bound, on one's own responsibility, at one's own risk; in the line of duty.
Phrases — the buck stops here; carry the can.
Quotations — Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the gods (Corneille), The buck stops here (Harry S. Truman), A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire (Jean Giraudoux), I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty (John D. Rockefeller).
Antonyms, see neglect.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [A personal sense of what one should do]
Syn. obligation, conscience, liability, charge, responsibility, accountability, faithfulness, pledge, commitment, burden, good faith, devoir, honesty, integrity, sense of duty, call of duty, bounden duty, the hell within, inward monitor, still small voice; see also responsibility 1 , 2 .
Ant. disloyalty*, pleasure, irresponsibility.
2. [Whatever one has to do]
Syn. work, office, task, occupation, function, business, province, part, calling, charge, service, mission, obligation, contract, commitment, station, trust, trouble, burden, undertaking, commission, engagement, assignment, routine, chore, pains, responsibility; see also job 2 .
Ant. entertainment*, amusement, sport.
See Synonym Study at function .
3. [A levy, especially on goods]
Syn. charge, revenue, custom, tariff; see tax 1 .
• off duty,
Syn. at liberty, off work, not engaged, free, off, at leisure, inactive; see also free 2 , unemployed .
• on duty,
Syn. employed, engaged, at work; see busy 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
1. responsibility charge, task, commission, obligation, trust, requirement, function, assignment, job, burden.
2. tax customs, excise, levy, tariff, toll, impost, assessment.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. An act or course of action that is demanded of one: burden1, charge, commitment, imperative, must, need, obligation, responsibility. See OBLIGATION. 2. A piece of work that has been assigned: assignment, chore, job, office, stint, task. See WORK. 3. The condition of being put to use: application, employment, service, use, utilization. See USED. 4. A compulsory contribution, usually of money, that is required for the support of a government: assessment, impost, levy, tariff, tax. See MONEY, PAY, POLITICS.

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