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duty [ˈdjuːtı] N

2. duty:

duty
税 shuì
customs duties
关税

active duty N

active duty → active service

See also active service

active service N, active duty

active service N, active duty

customs duty N

death duty Brit, death tax Am N

duty-bound ADJ

duty-free ADJ ADV

duty-paid ADJ

heavy-duty ADJ

point duty N

duty-free shop N

Usage examples with duties

customs duties
关税
be faithful to duties
忠于职守
execute one's duties
尽职
rights and duties
权利与义务
encumber trade with heavy duties
以沉重的关税来阻碍贸易
be remiss in one's duties
玩忽职守
be forgetful of one's duties
玩忽职守
His duties and mine overlap.
他的职责和我的部分相同。

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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Once these locomotives left DVT duties, the remote equipment was removed.
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The primary duties of a bagger revolve around putting groceries into a shopping bag and then into a shopping cart.
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Her task in the eventuality of war would have been to attack enemy shipping and surveillance duties.
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However, small allowances for personal possession are permitted as long as the possessor can prove that they have paid import duties.
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When peace was concluded in 1815, he resumed his professorial duties.
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In the rearward island areas, she continued her duties as a harbor tug and local escort vessel.
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He discharged his new duties with energy and kept up his episcopal visitations till his eightieth year.
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Teachers earn extra pay for duties such as advising the clubs, writing curriculum or coaching athletics teams.
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After twelve years of performing various duties, he was appointed director general.
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Politicians and bureaucrats would succumb to the lure of government lucre accumulated through taxation, tariff duties and public land sales.
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