breach of duty | a breach of due care |
leap leaping spring saltation bound bounce | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards |
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 |
limit bound boundary | the greatest possible degree of something, what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior, to the limit of his ability |
bound morpheme bound form | a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction, eg an -s at the end of plural nouns |
boundary bound bounds | the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something |
sense of shame sense of duty | a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility |
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 |
boundary edge bound | a line determining the limits of an area |
upper bound | (mathematics) a number equal to or greater than any other number in a given set |
lower bound | (mathematics) a number equal to or less than any other number in a given set |
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 |
restrict restrain trammel limit bound confine throttle | place limits on (extent or access), restrict the use of this parking lot, limit the time you can spend with your friends |
bounce resile take a hop spring bound rebound recoil reverberate ricochet | spring back, spring away from an impact, The rubber ball bounced, These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide |
skip bound off | bound off one point after another |
jump leap bound spring | move forward by leaps and bounds, The horse bounded across the meadow, The child leapt across the puddle, Can you jump over the fence? |
bound border | form the boundary of, be contiguous to |
desk-bound deskbound | restricted to working in an office rather than in an active physical capacity |
bound | confined by bonds, bound and gagged hostages |
bound | secured with a cover or binding, often used as a combining form, bound volumes, leather-bound volumes |
half-bound | (of books) having the back bound in one material and the sides in another |
well-bound | (of books) having a sturdy and attractive binding |
bound(p) destined | (usually followed by `to') governed by fate, bound to happen, an old house destined to be demolished, he is destined to be famous |
bound up wrapped up | deeply devoted to, bound up in her teaching, is wrapped up in his family |
weather-bound | delayed or shut in by bad weather, weather-bound traffic, irritable weather-bound children |
bound(p) | confined in the bowels, he is bound in the belly |
fascinated hypnotized hypnotised mesmerized mesmerised spellbound spell-bound transfixed | having your attention fixated as though by a spell |