Duty

n.	1.	That which is due; payment. When thou receivest money for thy labor or ware, thou receivest thy duty. - Tyndale.
	2.	That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory. Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country. - Hallam.
	3.	Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. With records sweet of duties done. - Keble. To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty. - Hallam. Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. - C. J. Smith.
	4.	Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors.
	5.	Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
	6.	(Engin.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).
	7.	(Com.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods. Ad valorem duty a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See Ad valorem. Specific duty a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market. On duty actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task.

Noun	1.	duty - work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons; "the duties of the job"
	2.	duty - the social force that binds you to your obligations and 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 Synonyms: obligation, responsibility
	3.	duty - a government tax on imports or exports; "they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries" Synonyms: tariff

DUTY, natural law. A human action which is, exactly conformable to the laws which require us to obey them.
     2. It differs from a legal obligation, because a duty cannot always be enforced by the law; it is our duty, for example, to be temperate in eating, but we are under no legal obligation to be so; we ought to love our neighbors, but no law obliges us to love them.
     3. Duties may be considered in the relation of man towards God, towards himself, and towards mankind. 1. We are bound to obey the will of God as far as we are able to discover it, because he is the sovereign Lord of the universe who made and governs all things by his almighty power, and infinite wisdom. The general name of this duty is piety: which consists in entertaining just opinions concerning him, and partly in such affections towards him, and such, worship of him, as is suitable to these opinions.
     4.-2. A man has a duty to perform towards himself; he is bound by the law of nature to protect his life and his limbs; it is his duty, too, to avoid all intemperance in eating and drinking, and in the unlawful gratification of all his other appetites.
     5.-3. He has duties to perform towards others. He is bound to do to others the same justice which he would have a right to expect them to do to him.

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