Duty and Use

Duty

Duty noun - A charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use.

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Use and duty are semantically related in used topic. In some cases you can use "Use" instead a noun "Duty".

Use noun - The act or practice of employing something for a particular purpose.

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Duty and use are semantically related in used topic. Sometimes you can use "Duty" instead a noun "Use".

Nearby Words: useless, useful, used, usefulness, using

good	good duty	good use
full	full duty	full use
particular	particular duty	particular use
usual	usual duty	usual use
Other adjectives: public, regular, original, active, actual, real, constant, main, personal, new, possible, military, primary, modern.

First of all, to forestall any confusion generated by poor use of terminology ("battleship" is often incorrectly used as a synonym for "warship"), there are no battleships on active duty in any navy today, after the U.S.

Source: Useful Notes / Types of Naval Ships
A.K.A.-47: This is the first Call of Duty game to use this on a large scale; various real-life firearms used in the future missions use fictionalized or altered names (the TDI Kard is the "KAP-40", the QCW-05 becomes the "Chicom CQB", etc.).

Source: Video Game / Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Another Dilbert strip had a co-worker asking him what excuse he was planning to use to get out of jury duty.

Source: Jury Duty

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