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on duty

on duty prepositional phrase: actively engaged in an assigned task, duty or occupation.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Actively engaged in an assigned task, duty or occupation.
    • I'm supposed to go on duty at 0800 hours.
    • He was seen drinking on duty.
    Antonyms:
    off duty

on duty meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

on duty in Tamil

பணியின் போது, வேலை செய்கையில்

on duty in Malayalam

working, at work, busy
ജോലിയിൽഏർപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്ന, ജോലിത്തിരക്കിലായ, നിമഗ്ന, ജോലിയിൽ മുഴുകിയ, കർമ്മവ്യാപ്ത, ജോലിത്തിരിക്കുള്ള

Antonyms of on duty

Forms of on duty

alternative formon-duty

Questions about on duty

What does on duty mean?
On duty means actively engaged in an assigned task, duty or occupation.
What is on duty in Tamil?
On duty in Tamil is பணியின் போது, வேலை செய்கையில். See On duty meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is on duty?
On duty is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on duty in the dictionary

  1. on display
  2. on dit
  3. on dits
  4. on drive
  5. on drives
  6. on duty
  7. on earth
  8. on edge
  9. on end
  10. on equal footing
  11. on equal terms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on duty (page history and authors); on duty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); on duty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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