(n.) That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory.
(n.) Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty.
(n.) Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.
(n.) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
(n.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
(n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods.
Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) Uninfected people's general rights to protection are considered, and health professionals' and authorities' rights and duties are given more detailed attention.
(3) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(4) With SH, blood flow at low and moderate Pdi was limited at duty cycles greater than 0.3 and 0.1, respectively.
(5) So fourth, we must tackle the issue of a relatively large number of officers kept on restricted duties, on full pay.
(6) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
(7) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
(8) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(9) Approximately one third of all students said that ticks had a significant or very significant impact on duty performance.
(10) The fact that Line of Duty is ranked among the best TV fiction for years suggests there is no crisis with the channel.
(11) Revenue from tobacco duty in 2011-12 was £9.55bn, up from £8.09bn in 2007-08.
(12) "I have a brilliant staff and we have a duty to serve our readers and will continue to do that.
(13) If we’ve a duty to pass folk music on, we should also bring it up to date and make it relevant to our times,” he says.
(14) He suggests that doctors and nurses who provide terminal care be selected for psychological suitability, be trained in communication, receive adequate ongoing support and definition of their roles, and rotate periodically to less stressful duties.
(15) We have a moral duty to conserve them and to educate people about their habitat, health and the threats they face."
(16) Consumers, dentists, dental students, dental assistants, dental hygienists, dental assistant trainees, and dental hygiene students in Massachusetts were surveyed for their attitudes toward the concept of expanded-duties auxiliaries.
(17) Currently, anyone buying a property for £175,000 or less avoids paying 1% stamp duty.
(18) In March-May 1988, we collected data on enrollment of 1,445 Army families with grade school children in the Active Duty Dependents Dental Insurance Plan at two Army posts.
(19) Dave Couvertier, an FBI spokesman, confirmed only that "the agent encountered the suspect while conducting official duties" and said he expected to be able to release further details of the incident later on Wednesday.
(20) This is not about the BBC exercising its charter duties of impartiality, as they maintain.
Mission
Definition:
(n.) The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
(n.) That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.
(n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
(n.) An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.
(n.) An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.
(n.) A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.
(n.) Dismission; discharge from service.
(v. t.) To send on a mission.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
(3) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
(4) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
(5) She then spent five years as director of mission and pastoral studies at Cranmer Hall.
(6) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(7) "We hope that we can help in designing the future missions to Mars," said the Frenchman, Romain Charles.
(8) He still insists that the nation will return to surplus by 2020 – a make-or-break target that will define the success or failure of his fiscal mission.
(9) Pharmacists are criticized for a failing sense of mission and a waning dependence on knowledge.
(10) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
(11) After Tuesday’s launch Pan told Xinhua the mission marked “a transition in China’s role ... from a follower in classic information technology (IT) development to one of the leaders guiding future IT achievements”.
(12) "I believe it is important to take stock of how technological advances alter the environment in which we conduct our intelligence mission," he explained.
(13) Was this a museum with a mission to educate, or not?
(14) Yury Bubeyev, the chief psychologist on the project, said his 10-person team noted no serious conflicts during the mission.
(15) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
(16) And so, through Trove’s archived newspapers, I’ve found Harry – the mission boy who saw the Japanese at Caledon Bay imprison women, girls and old men in the trepang smokehouse, before raping the women in the bush.
(17) One of my favorites, on the mission's "Participate" web page , is the "Be a Martian" virtual reality apps (web and mobile).
(18) Describing the Standard as a "good paper", he said his "social mission" was to help the ailing title survive.
(19) If there is any movement by Russian forces across the border, it won’t be a humanitarian mission, it will be an invasion.
(20) The guarantee he gives of success is, again, based on his military record, citing what has become his catchphrase : “Mission failure is not an option.” 7.