| breach of duty | a breach of due care |
| heavy lifting | difficult work, the boss hoped the plan would succeed but he wasn't willing to do the heavy lifting |
| 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 |
artillery
heavy weapon
gun ordnance | large but transportable armament |
| heavy | a serious (or tragic) role in a play |
heavy metal
heavy metal music | loud and harsh sounding rock music with a strong beat, lyrics usually involve violent or fantastic imagery |
ground swell
heavy swell | a broad and deep undulation of the ocean |
double creme
heavy whipping cream | cream with a fat content of % or more |
| heavy cream | contains more than % butterfat |
sense of shame
sense of duty | a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility |
baryon
heavy particle | any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions, a hadron with a baryon number of |
| heavy hitter | an influential person who works hard to promote the causes they are interested in |
| heavy | an actor who plays villainous roles |
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 |
| heavy metal | a metal of relatively high density (specific gravity greater than about ) or of high relative atomic weight (especially one that is poisonous like mercury or lead) |
deuterium
heavy hydrogen | an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen) |
heavy spar
barite
barytes
barium sulphate | a white or colorless mineral (BaSO), the main source of barium |
heavy water
deuterium oxide | water containing a substantial proportion of deuterium atoms, used in nuclear reactors |
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 |
bumbling
bungling
butterfingered
ham-fisted
ham-handed
handless
heavy-handed
left-handed | lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands, a bumbling mechanic, a bungling performance, ham-handed governmental interference, could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature- Mary H. Vorse |
big(p)
enceinte
expectant
gravid
great(p)
large(p)
heavy(p)
with child(p) | in an advanced stage of pregnancy, was big with child, was great with child |
| heavy-coated | wearing a heavy coat, heavy-coated policemen astride noble horses |
heavy
lowering
sullen
threatening | darkened by clouds, a heavy sky |
clayey
cloggy
heavy | (used of soil) compact and fine-grained, the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated |
heavy
profound
sound
wakeles | (of sleep) deep and complete, a heavy sleep, fell into a profound sleep, a sound sleeper, deep wakeless sleep |
heavy-handed
roughshod | unjustly domineering, incensed at the government's heavy-handed economic policies, a manager who rode roughshod over all opposition |
heavy
leaden | lacking lightness or liveliness, heavy humor, a leaden conversation |