double duty
double duty noun: the performance of two distinct roles simultaneously or the undertaking of work for two people.
Noun
double duty (countable and uncountable, plural double duties)
- The performance of two distinct roles simultaneously or the undertaking of work for two people.
- But if a token phenomenal feel does double duty in this way (as a token of an aspect of both the pain and our way of thinking of the pain), no extra specter of dualism arises.2006 March 23, Dean Zimmerman, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Volume 2, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 22
- A cryptic device or cluing error whereby a term forms part of both the definition and the wordplay.
- I find this anagram fascinating, a message from the god of language. Mess serves double duty here, as synonym and as anagram tip-off.1986 10, “Spy”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 61
- "working" here does double duty as an anagram indicator and as a main constituent of the definition.2015 January 1, B. J. Holmes, Pocket Crossword Dictionary, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN
Forms of double duty
| plural | double duties |
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Questions about double duty
- What does double duty mean?
- Double duty means the performance of two distinct roles simultaneously or the undertaking of work for two people.
- What part of speech is double duty?
- Double duty is a noun.
- What is the plural of double duty?
- The plural of double duty is double duties.
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