sense of duty (responsibility)

  • 1sense of duty — index adhesion (loyalty), allegiance, charge (responsibility), commitment (responsibility), conscience …

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  • 2sense of duty — noun a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility • Syn: ↑sense of shame • Hypernyms: ↑conscience, ↑scruples, ↑moral sense, ↑sense of right and wrong …

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  • 3responsibility — I (accountability) noun accountableness, amenability, answerability, bounden duty, boundness, burden, chargeability, commitment, compulsion, culpability, duty, encumbrance, engagement, imperative duty, liability, obligation, obligatoriness,… …

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  • 4duty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Requisite service Nouns 1. duty, moral obligation, accountability, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty; call of duty; allegiance, fealty, tie; engagement, promise; part, function, calling,… …

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  • 5Duty — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Duty >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 duty duty what ought to be done moral obligation accountableness liability onus responsibility Sgm: N 1 bounden duty bounden duty imperative duty Sgm: N 1 call call …

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  • 6duty — A tax on imports, exports, or consumption goods. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary There are two main types of duty collected by HM Customs and Excise: one is import duty , which is duty charged on goods imported into the European Union ( EU); and… …

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  • 7Sense and Sensibility — This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Sense and Sensibility (disambiguation). Sense and Sensibility   …

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  • 8duty — n. (pl. ies) 1 a a moral or legal obligation; a responsibility (his duty to report it). b the binding force of what is right (strong sense of duty). c what is required of one (do one s duty). 2 payment to the public revenue, esp.: a that levied… …

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  • 9responsibility — Synonyms and related words: accountability, accountableness, accounting for, action, agency, agentship, amenability, answerability, answerableness, application, arrogation, ascription, assignation, assignment, attachment, attribution, auspices,… …

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  • 10duty — noun 1) a misguided sense of duty Syn: responsibility, obligation, commitment, allegiance, loyalty 2) it was his duty to attend the king Syn: job, task, assignment, mission, function …

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