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Duty is a related term of excise.


As an adjective duty

is hollow (having an empty space inside).

As a verb excise is

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duty

English

Noun

(duties)
  • That which one is morally or legally obligated to do.
  • :
  • *1805 , 21 October,
  • *:England expects that every man will do his duty .
  • *
  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty , cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
    • , passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
    • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • A period of time spent at work or doing a particular task.
  • :
  • Describing a workload as to its idle, working and de-energized periods.
  • A tax placed on imports or exports; a tariff.
  • (lb) One's due, something one is owed; a debt or fee.
  • *1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) XX:
  • *:Take that which is thy duty , and goo thy waye.
  • (lb) Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:my duty to you
  • 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).

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "duty": public, private, moral, legal, social, double, civic, contractual, political, judicial, etc.

    Synonyms

    * (that which one is obligated to do) obligation

    Antonyms

    * duty-free (taxes) * (that which one is obligated to do) right

    Derived terms

    * active duty * chimney-duty * civic duty * death duty * Delivered Duty Paid * Delivered Duty Unpaid * dutiable * dutiful * duty-bound * duty calls * duty cycle * duty of care * estate duty * excise duty * export duty * fatigue duty * fiduciary duty * filial duty * heavy-duty * import duty * jury duty * legal duty * light-duty * line of duty * neglect duty * on duty * off duty * point duty * sea duty/sea-duty * shore duty * stamp duty * succession duty * tonnage duty * tour of duty

    Related terms

    * due

    Statistics

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    External links

    * * * 1000 English basic words ----

    excise

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) excijs, altered under the influence of Latin .

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia excise) (en noun)
  • A tax charged on goods produced within the country (as opposed to customs duties, charged on goods from outside the country).
  • * 1668 July 3rd, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
    • Andrew Hou?toun'' and ''Adam Mu?het'', being Tack?men of the Excize , did Imploy ''Thomas Rue'' to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound ''Sterling for a year.
  • * 1755, , A Dictionary of the English Language , "excise",
    • A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid.
  • * 1787, ,
    • The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises , to pay the debts of the United States;
    Synonyms
    * excise tax
    Derived terms
    * central excise * excise house * exciseman * unexcised

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To impose an excise tax on something.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) exciser, from (etyl) excisus, past participle of .

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To cut out; to remove.
  • * 1846 , William Youatt, The Dog ,
    • [T]hey [warts] may be lifted up with the forceps, and excised with a knife or scissors, and the wound touched with nitrate of silver.
  • * 1901, , Preface to the second edition of Myth, Ritual, and Religion ,
    • In revising the book I have excised certain passages which, as the book first appeared, were inconsistent with its main thesis.
  • * 1987 , , page 442 of Small Sacrifices ,
    • Insanity]] can be cured. Personality disorders are so [[inextricable, inextricably entwined with the heart and mind and soul that it is well-nigh impossible to excise them.
  • (rare) To perform certain types of female circumcision.
    • Related terms
    * excision