Duty
Duty noun - A charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use.
Paying
Paying noun - The act of offering money in exchange for goods or services.
Both words in one sentence
- The worst example is when he poisons his customers by serving a "Spongy Patty", he gets arrested but not sentenced because the Judge forgets his duty to punish scum like Krabs (Actually, Krabs bribed him) And Squidward ended up being the one paying for it.
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Also invokes the fact than some parents are not paying attention to the rating, and buy their children games like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty.
Source: Lets Play / Bob Lennon - Geary informs her that the fleet bureaucracy has determined that survival sleep did not count being on duty, specifically to avoid paying officers and sailors for the possible years and decades spent on ice; therefore, his pay was suspended when he was declared MIA.
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