duty
What's morally required
Duty is an obligation—something you must do because of your role, position, or moral code.
A soldier has duties, as does a nurse, a citizen, or a child.
Jury duty is compulsory service.
To be on duty is to be working; off duty means free from responsibilities.
Duty also refers to a tax on imports: customs duty, duty-free.
The phrase do one's duty can mean anything from fulfilling basic responsibilities to a euphemism for using the toilet.
State of being answerable
- requirementMandatory condition to fulfill
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- imperativeUnavoidably necessary
- chargeCost or accusation
necessity · compulsion · incumbency · onus · burden · liability · accountability · expectation
Loyalty owed to authority
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
- fealtyPledged devotion to authority
faithfulness · steadfastness · commitment · pledge · oath · vow · covenant · bond
Tax on traded goods
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- importObtain from overseas
- levyCompulsory government charge
- exciseRemove by cutting
dutiable · border · goods · trade · export · assessment · fee · charge
Allocated work or duty
work · responsibility · charge · mission · errand · undertaking · office · position
Study of right conduct
- conscienceInternal moral sense
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- righteousnessMoral correctness or virtue
honor · principle · rectitude · probity · uprightness · decency · morality · justice
Aid or maintenance
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- enlistmentVoluntary entry into service
- uniformIdentical throughout
- tourPlanned multi-destination journey
station · post · assignment · reserve · combat · rotation · orders · commission
Cloth symbol or signal
- anthemOfficial song of praise
- countrySovereign state or territory
- veteranExperienced former soldier
- soldierArmed forces member
nationalism · citizenship · homeland · valor · sacrifice · heroism · freedom · constitution
responsibility
State of being answerable
- requirementMandatory condition to fulfill
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- imperativeUnavoidably necessary
charge · necessity · compulsion · incumbency · onus · burden · liability · accountability · expectation · demand
allegiance
Loyalty owed to authority
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- fidelityLoyalty or exactness
fealty · faithfulness · steadfastness · commitment · pledge · oath · vow · covenant · bond · adherence
tariff
Tax on traded goods
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- importObtain from overseas
- levyCompulsory government charge
excise · dutiable · border · goods · trade · export · assessment · fee · charge · impost
assignment
Allocated work or duty
chore · work · responsibility · charge · mission · errand · undertaking · office · position · station
ethics
Study of right conduct
- conscienceInternal moral sense
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
righteousness · honor · principle · rectitude · probity · uprightness · decency · morality · justice · fairness
service
Aid or maintenance
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- enlistmentVoluntary entry into service
- uniformIdentical throughout
tour · station · post · assignment · reserve · combat · rotation · orders · commission · discharge
flag
Cloth symbol or signal
soldier · nationalism · citizenship · homeland · valor · sacrifice · heroism · freedom · constitution · democracy
weight
Measure of heaviness
- onusResponsibility one bears
- hardshipSuffering from difficult circumstances
- strainExcessive stretching force
stress · yoke · load · encumbrance · millstone · albatross · heavy · onerous · demanding · taxing
- chivalryknighthood, knights, chivalry, medieval knights, honor
- valuesvalue, honesty, worth, fairness, morals
- character traitspersonality, virtue, temperament, honor, disposition
- dutiestask, obligation, moral obligation, responsibility, mandate
- moral valuesresponsibility, honor, integrity, loyalty, honesty
- Noble Qualitieshonor, courage, integrity, virtue, kindness
dutyirresponsibility
Failure to meet obligations
neglect · dereliction · disregard · faithlessness · abandonment
dutypleasure
Happy, satisfied feeling
fun · leisure · amusement · entertainment · recreation
- jury dutyRequired courtroom participation
- on dutyActively at one's station
- off dutyNot at work
- active dutyCurrent military employment status
- ethical dutyWhat one ought morally
- tour of dutyAssigned period of service
dutiful, duties, off-duty, dutifully, dutifulness, duty-bound, undutiful, duty-free