Dharma (Sanskrit) [from
the verbal root dhri to bear, support] Equity, justice, conduct, duty;
right religion, philosophy,
and science;
the law per se;
the rules of society, caste,
and stage of life. Secondarily, an
essential or
characteristic quality or peculiarity,
approaching closely to
the meaning of svabhava.
also a
sage who married ten or
thirteen daughters of Daksha, a
judge of
the dead;
the personification of
law and justice. In
the Mahabharata,
the father of Yudhishthira,
chief of
the Pandavas.
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an
action which we
are obligated to
perform out of
respect for the moral law.
officium
munus
dutydu"ty (?), n.; pl.
duties (#). [from due.]
1. that which is due; payment. [obs. as
signifying a
material thing.]
when thou receivest
money for thy labor or ware,
thou receivest
thy duty.
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.
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. to
employ him on
the hardest and most imperative duty.
duty is a
graver term than obligation. a
duty hardly exists to do
trivial things;
but there may be an
obligation to do them. j. smith.
4. specifically,
obedience or
submission due to
parents and superiors.
5. respect; reverence; regard;
act of respect; homage. "my
duty to you."
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.note: an
impost on
land or
other real estate,
and on
the stock of farmers, is
not called a duty,
but a
direct tax. [u.s.] Â Â similar words(23)Â
 heavy-dutyÂ
 import duty  sentry dutyÂ
 light-duty  probate dutyÂ
 stamp duty  duty periodÂ
 tonnage duty  line dutyÂ
 tour of duty  line of dutyÂ
 legacy duty  legal dutyÂ
 to pay one`s duty  on dutyÂ
 guard duty  specific dutyÂ
 transit duty  customs dutyÂ
 duty assignment  death dutyÂ
 ad valorem duty  duty tourÂ
(
n.)
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). Â
(
n.)
That
which is due; payment. Â
(
n.)
That
which a
person is
bound by
moral obligation to do, or
refrain from doing;
that which one ought to do;
service morally obligatory. Â
(
n.)
Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise;
any sum of
money required by
government to be
paid on
the importation, exportation, or
consumption of goods. Â
(
n.)
Specifically,
obedience or
submission due to
parents and superiors. Â
(
n.)
Respect; reverence; regard;
act of respect; homage. Â
(
n.)
Hence,
any assigned service or business; as,
the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. Â
Noun1.
work that you are obliged to
perform for moral or
legal reasons; "the
duties of
the job" (hypernym)
work (hyponym) job, task, chore2.
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 (synonym) responsibility,
obligation (hypernym)
social control (hyponym) job3. a
government tax on
imports or exports; "they
signed a
treaty to
lower duties on
trade between their countries" (synonym)
tariff (hypernym)
indirect tax (hyponym) customs,
customs duty, custom, impost
dualgas
Duty, (n.)That
which sternly impels us in
the direction of profit,
along the line of desire.
sir lavender Portwine, in
favor at court,
was wroth at
his master,
who'd kissed lady Port.
his anger provoked him to
take the king's head,
but duty prevailed,
and he
took the king's bread, Instead. G.J. Â Â
Angordreth = n.
anchorage duty
Arddyled = n. obligation, duty
Dyledswydd = n. duty, obligation
Dylid = n. obligation, duty
Dylw = n. obligation, duty
Swydd = n. employ, office, duty, service; a suit; a
shire a county
Swyddogaeth = n. office, duty
A
tax on imports, exports, or
consumption goods.
A
tax imposed by a
government on imports. (TNDOT1)
a
tax on
imports and exports (see ad valorem.)
A
tax levied by a
government on
the import, export, or
consumption of goods
n. Qu'; ghIgh (slang)
v. gheS
n. yaH
gu-vam (anc.)
Duty (from "due,"
that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, did,
past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. "debt") is a
term that conveys a
sense of
moral commitment to
someone or something.
the moral commitment is
the sort that results in action,
and it is
not a
matter of
passive feeling or
mere recognition.
when someone recognizes a duty,
they commit themselves to
the cause involved without considering the self-interested
courses of
actions that may have been relevant previously.
this is
not to
suggest that living a
life of
duty precludes one from the best sort of life,
but duty does involve some sacrifice of
immediate self-interest.
fear of responsibilityAlso
known as Hypegiaphobia
fear of
neglecting duty or responsibility
A
combination of
related tasks equal a duty,
and duties combine to
form a job.
the total volume of
irrigation water required for irrigation in
order to
mature a
particular type of crop. In
stating the duty,
the crop,
and usually the location of
the land in question, as
well as
the type of soil,
should be specified. It
also includes consumptive use,
evaporation and seepage from on-farm
ditches and canals,
and the water that is
eventually returned to
streams by
percolation and surface runoff.
also see alpine decree (Nevada),
orr ditch decree (Nevada),
bench lands (Nevada),
and bottom lands (Nevada)
for additional information and examples of
specific water duties.
A
legal obligation.An
amount assessed on an
imported or (less often)
exported item,
nearly equivalent to taxes,
embracing all impositions or
charges levied on
persons or things.A
human action which is
exactly conformable to
the laws which require us to
obey them.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.Duties
may be
considered in
the relation of
man towards God,
towards himself,
and towards mankind. 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.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.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. Â
this entry contains material from Bouvier's
legal Dictionary, a
work published in
the 1850's.
DUTY, AD
valorem - An
assessed amount at a
certain percentage rate on
the monetary value of an import.
DUTY,
specific -
assessment on
the weight or
quantity of an
article without preference to
its monetary value or
market price.
