Duty
Duty noun - A charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use.
Task force and duty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Task force" instead a noun "Duty".
Task force
Task force noun - A semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task.
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Duty and task force are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Duty" instead a noun phrase "Task force".
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- A task force, that doesn't officially exist, whose duty is to 'delay that inevitable' for another few years, and continually.
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Similar to the Operation Highjump conspiracy theory (see below), in Call of Duty: Black Ops a Russian special task force is assembled to take out the last vestiges of the Nazi regime in a secret polar base developing Nova 6 about a month after WW2 officially ended.
Source: Mysterious Antarctica - In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the British SAS/United States Marine Corps task force manages to stop the nuclear missiles headed towards the Eastern Seaboard and kill Ultranationalist leader Imran Zakhaev...but at a great cost.
Source: Bittersweet Ending / Video Games
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