how to pronounce duty

/ˈdutiː/

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duty is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of duty in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… increase in export and import duty at a …”

meaning of duty

Duty is a noun that means a person's responsibility to do something.

duty frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word duty occurs in english on average 32.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics duty can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that duty can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;