| breach of duty | a breach of due care |
| Creation | (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence |
initiation founding
foundation
institution
origination
creation innovation
introduction instauration | the act of starting something for the first time, introducing something new, she looked forward to her initiation as an adult, the foundation of a new scientific society |
| 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 |
creation
creative activity | the human act of creating |
| verbal creation | creating something by the use of speech and language |
art
artistic creation
artistic production | the creation of beautiful or significant things, art does not need to be innovative to be good, I was never any good at art, he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully |
| 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 |
| creation | an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone |
steady state theory
continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
| creation science | an effort to give scientific support for the truth of the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis |
roll
roster | a list of names, his name was struck off the rolls |
creation
conception | the event that occurred at the beginning of something, from its creation the plan was doomed to failure |
sense of shame
sense of duty | a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility |
universe
existence
creation
world cosmos
macrocosm | everything that exists anywhere, they study the evolution of the universe, the biggest tree in existence |
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 |
| countervailing duty | a duty imposed to offset subsidies by foreign governments |
pair production
pair creation
pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
shift
work shift
duty period | the time period during which you are at work |
enlistment
hitch
term of enlistment
tour of duty
duty tour
tour | a period of time spent in military service |
| light-duty | not designed for heavy work, a light-duty detergent |
| heavy-duty | designed for heavy work, a heavy-duty detergent, heavy-duty gloves |
duty-bound(p)
obliged(p) | under a moral obligation to do something |
| duty-free | exempt from duty, duty-free liquor |