duty

nounid 2377·updated May 9, 2026
verified

A social, moral, or legal obligation; a responsibility.

polysemous

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Classifications

Entity Type

Requirement72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
obligationresponsibility
alternatephrasing
Duty
plural
duties
possessive
duty's
pluralpossessive
duties'

Framework definitions

FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 20121 senseview framework →
§1
A social, moral, or legal obligation; a responsibility.
Wordset Dictionary3 sensesview framework →
§1
work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons
§2
the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
§3
a government tax on imports or exports
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A social, moral, or legal obligation; a responsibility.
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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