Duty

Definition

duty /'dju:ti; US 'du:ti/ n ၁။ [C, U] တာဝန္။ ဝတၱရား။ do one's duty ❍ It's the duty of a doctor to try to keep people alive. ❍ It's not something I enjoy, I do it purely out of a sense of duty. ❍ I'll have to go, I'm afraid—duty calls. ၂။ [C, U] အလုပ္။ တာဝန္။ routine administrative duties ❍ guard duty ❍ What are the primary duties of a traffic warden? See also HEAVY-DUTY ၃။ [C, U] ~ (on sth) အေကာက္။ အခြန္။ customs/excise duties. Compare TARIFF ၂, DEATH DUTY, STAMP-DUTY ❏ do duty for sth [ IDM ] အစားထိုးသံုးသည္။ An old wooden box did duty for a table. ❏ duty-bound adj တာဝန္ရိွေသာ။ ဝတၱရားရိွေသာ။ I'm duty-bound to help him. ❏ duty-free adj, adv အေကာက္မဲ့။ duty-free cigarettes ❍ You're allowed 1 1 / 2 litres of spirits duty-free. ❏ duty-free shop n (ေလဆိပ္ရိွ) အေကာက္အခြန္မဲ့ ပစၥည္း အေရာင္းဆိုင္။ ❏ on/off duty [ IDM ] တာဝန္ခ်ိန္/တာဝန္ျပင္ပအခ်ိန္။ I arrive at the hospital at eight o'clock, but I don't go on duty until nine. ❍ off duty activities/hours.

Examples

1. He has a duty under the terms of his contract to pay rent.
2. [be someone’s duty to do something] : It is your duty as a parent to protect your children.
3. [owe/have a duty to someone] : The company has a duty to its shareholders.
4. [sense of duty] : He has a strong sense of family duty.
5. [do your duty] : I was simply doing my duty as a good citizen.
6. He was too unwell to carry out his administrative duties.
7. Police officers are often injured in the course of their duties.
8. The house buyer has to pay duty at 1% of the purchase price.
9. [duty on] : The duty on petrol has been raised.