Synonyms for duties
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : doo-tee, dyoo- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdu ti, ˈdyu- |
Top 10 synonyms for duties Other synonyms for the word duties
- accountableness
- allegiance
- amenability
- answerability
- assessment
- call of duty
- calling
- committal
- conscience
- custom
- customs
- deference
- devoir
- due
- dues
- engagement
- excise
- faithfulness
- good faith
- honesty
- hook
- impost
- integrity
- levy
- liability
- load
- loyalty
- millstone
- minding the store
- mission
- must
- need
- obedience
- obligation
- occupation
- office
- onus
- ought
- pains
- part
- pledge
- province
- rate
- respect
- revenue
- reverence
- role
- service
- station
- string
- taking care of business
- tariff
- task
- toll
- trouble
- trust
- undertaking
- weight
- work
Définition of duties
Origin :- late 13c., from Anglo-French duete, from Old French deu "due, owed; proper, just," from Vulgar Latin *debutus, from Latin debitus, past participle of debere "to owe" (see debt). Related: Duties. The sense of "tax or fee on imports, exports, etc." is from late 15c.; duty-free as a noun is attested from 1958.
- noun responsibility, assignment
- noun tax on foreign goods
- noun moral obligation
- Their first act is to lower the duties on the importation of foreign cattle!
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- The office has come to me unsought; I commence its duties untrammeled.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- The duties were to be reduced and the system improved, but the principle was to be maintained.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- It was simply as to the amount of relaxation the country could bear in the duties.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- In performing the duties of my office, I need the help and prayers of every one of you.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Do you mean my particular seat, the clerks, or the duties, or all combined?
- Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder
- You think of other duties you have undertaken, and wonder who will carry them through.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- Might not the duties of some callings be incompatible with marriage?
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Then of course to the duties of a wife belong the claims Society has upon her as a wife.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
Antonyms for duties
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