#duty  work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons: "the duties of the job"
  supertype:  work  activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
  subtype:  chore__job__task  a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee: "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
     subtype:  stint  an individuals prescribed share of work: "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
     subtype:  disagreeable_task__disagreeable_chore  a chore that causes discomfort
        subtype:  scut_work__shitwork  trivial unrewarding tedious dirty and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work"
  subtype:  function__office__part__role  the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group: "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"
     subtype:  capacity.function  a specified function; "he was employed in the capacity of director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary"
     subtype:  hat  an informal term for a person's role; "he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly"
     subtype:  portfolio  the role of the head of a government department; "he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs"
     subtype:  stead__position__place__lieu  the function or position properly or customarily occupied or served by another: "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of"
        subtype:  behalf  as the agent of or on someone's part; usually expressed as "on behalf of" rather than "in behalf of": "the guardian signed the contract on behalf of the minor child"; "this letter is written on behalf of my client"
     subtype:  second_fiddle  a secondary role or function; "he hated to play second fiddle to anyone"
  subtype:  duty_assignment__assignment  as duty that you are assigned to perform especially in the armed forces: "hazardous duty"
     subtype:  guard_duty__guardduty__guard__sentry_duty__sentry_go  the duty of serving as a sentry; "he was on guard that night"
     subtype:  fatigue_duty__fatigueduty__fatigue  labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); "the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson"; "they were assigned to kitchen fatigues"
     subtype:  mission__charge__commission  a task that has been assigned to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message"
        subtype:  fool's_errand  a fruitless mission
        subtype:  mission_impossible__missionimpossible  an extremely dangerous or difficult mission
     subtype:  reassignment  assignment to a different duty
        subtype:  secondment  the detachment of a person from their regular organization for temporary assignment elsewhere
     subtype:  sea-duty__seaduty__service_abroad__serviceabroad__shipboard_duty__shipboardduty  naval service aboard a ship at sea
     subtype:  shore_duty__shoreduty  naval service at land bases

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