| breach of duty | a breach of due care |
| duty | work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons, the duties of the job |
assignment
duty assignment | a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces), hazardous duty |
guard duty
guard sentry duty
sentry go | the duty of serving as a sentry, he was on guard that night |
fatigue duty
fatigue | labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on), the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson, they were assigned to kitchen fatigues |
sea-duty
service abroad
shipboard duty | naval service aboard a ship at sea |
| shore duty | naval service at land bases |
| neglect of duty | (law) breach of a duty |
| operating procedure | a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation |
standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
| point duty | the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection |
duty
responsibility
obligation | the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force, we must instill a sense of duty in our children, every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty- John D.Rockefeller Jr |
civic duty
civic responsibility | the responsibilities of a citizen |
| jury duty | the civic duty to serve on a jury |
| filial duty | duty of a child to its parents |
| legal duty | acts which the law requires be done or forborne |
| fiduciary duty | the legal duty of a fiduciary to act in the best interests of the beneficiary |
| line of duty | all that is normally required in some area of responsibility |
bicycle
bike
wheel cycle | a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals |
| operating microscope | binocular microscope used in surgery to provide a clear view of small and inaccessible parts of the body (as in microsurgery) |
operating room
OR
operating theater
operating theatre
surgery | a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations, great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic |
| operating table | table on which the patient lies during a surgical operation |
pedicab
cycle rickshaw | a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling), used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire, boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs |
operating capability
performance capability | the capability of a technological system to perform as intended |
instruction manual
instructions
book of instructions
operating instructions | a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it |
operating system
OS | (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services |
DOS
disk operating system | an operating system that is on a disk |
MS-DOS
Microsoft disk operating system | an operating system developed by Bill Gates for personal computers |
UNIX
UNIX system
UNIX operating system | trademark for a powerful operating system |
| cycle of rebirth | (Hinduism) repeated rebirth in new forms |
| cycle oscillation | a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon, a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons |
| cardiac cycle | the complete cycle of events in the heart from the beginning of one heart beat to the beginning of the next, an electrical impulse conducted through the heart muscle that constricts the atria which is followed by constriction of the ventricles, the cardiac cycle can be shown on an electrocardiogram |
Carnot cycle
Carnot's ideal cycle | a cycle (of expansion and compression) of an idealized reversible heat engine that does work without loss of heat |
| cycle | a periodically repeated sequence of events, a cycle of reprisal and retaliation |
business cycle
trade cycle | recurring fluctuations in economic activity consisting of recession and recovery and growth and decline |
| cycle | a series of poems or songs on the same theme, Schubert's song cycles |
sense of shame
sense of duty | a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility |
chief executive officer
CEO
chief operating officer | the corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm, reports to a board of directors, may appoint other managers (including a president) |
surgeon
operating surgeon
sawbones | a physician who specializes in surgery |
food web
food cycle | (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains |
| life cycle | a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage |
operating expense
operating cost
overhead
budget items | the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance), it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes |
inheritance tax
estate tax
death tax
death duty | a tax on the estate of the deceased person |
stamp tax
stamp duty | a tax collected by requiring a stamp to be purchased and attached (usually on documents or publications) |
duty
tariff | a government tax on imports or exports, they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries |
customs
customs duty
custom
impost | money collected under a tariff |
tonnage
tunnage
tonnage duty | a tax imposed on ships that enter the US, based on the tonnage of the ship |
| anti-dumping duty | a tariff imposed to prevent dumping |
| import duty | a duty imposed on imports |
| export duty | a duty imposed on exports |