| 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 |
| 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 |
principal axis
optic axis | a line that passes through the center of curvature of a lens so that light is neither reflected nor refracted, in a normal eye the optic axis is the direction in which objects are seen most distinctly |
main diagonal
principal diagonal | the diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry |
sense of shame
sense of duty | a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility |
| principal dealer | the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange, buys and sells for his own account |
principal
school principal
head teacher
head | the educator who has executive authority for a school, she sent unruly pupils to see the principal |
| principal | (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement |
principal investigator
PI | the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project |
star
principal lead | an actor who plays a principal role |
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 |
principal corpus
principal sum | capital as contrasted with the income derived from it |
| principal | the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated |
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 |
chief(a) main(a)
primary(a)
principal(a)
master(a) | most important element, the chief aim of living, the main doors were of solid glass, the principal rivers of America, the principal example, policemen were primary targets, the master bedroom, a master switch |
duty-bound(p)
obliged(p) | under a moral obligation to do something |
| duty-free | exempt from duty, duty-free liquor |