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Summary

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duty:
- devoir; obligation; tarif; tarif de péage
Wiktionary:
- duty → taxe, travail, service, obligation, devoir, assujettissement
- duty → devoir
- duty → service, devoir, obligation, taxe

English

Detailed Translations for duty from English to French

duty:

duty [the ~] noun

the duty
le devoir; l'obligation
- devoir [le ~] noun
- obligation [la ~] noun
the duty (tariff; rate; levy)

– a government tax on imports or exports ¹
le tarif
- tarif [le ~] noun
the duty (tariff)

– a government tax on imports or exports ¹
le tarif de péage
- tarif de péage [le ~] noun

Translation Matrix for duty:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
devoir	duty	being forced to; being obliged to; clerical work; difficulty; having to; lecture; paper; problematical case; project; task; writing
obligation	duty	commitment; debenture; engagement; oath; obligation; pledge; promise; undertaking; vow
tarif	duty; levy; rate; tariff	offer; quotation
tarif de péage	duty; tariff
-	obligation; responsibility; tariff
Verb	Related Translations	Other Translations
devoir		be obliged to; have to; must; need; ought to; owe; should; want
Other	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	attendance; fúnction; imposition; obligation; service; task; tax; work

Related Words for "duty":

duties

Synonyms for "duty":

work
responsibility; obligation; social control
tariff; indirect tax

Related Definitions for "duty":

work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons¹
- the duties of the job¹
the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force¹
- we must instill a sense of duty in our children¹
- every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty¹
a government tax on imports or exports¹
- they signed a treaty to lower duties on trade between their countries¹

Wiktionary Translations for duty:

duty

noun

tax; tariff
- duty → taxe
period of time
- duty → travail
that which one is morally or legally obligated to do
- duty → service; obligation; devoir

duty

noun

action d'assujettir, de soumettre, de conquérir.
- assujettissement → subjection; constraint; lack of freedom; duty
Ce à quoi on est obliger par la raison, par la morale, par la loi, par sa condition, par la bienséance, etc.
- devoir → duty; responsibility; homework

verb

Avoir à payer une somme d’argent, à rendre ou à donner quelque chose que ce soit.
- devoir → owe; duty; must; have to; should

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• duty	→ service	↔ Dienst — das Arbeitsverhältnis, die regelmäßige bezahlte Arbeit, die Amtspflichten
• duty	→ devoir; obligation	↔ Pflicht — was getan werden müssen, was von einem verlangen oder erwarten wird; Verpflichtung
• duty	→ taxe	↔ Abgabe — Zahlungen an Behörden

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