Line Of Duty (Noun)
Meaning
All that is normally required in some area of responsibility.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- She has carried out her line of duty with unwavering dedication, going above and beyond the expectations of her job description.
- It's the CEO's line of duty to ensure that all shareholders receive fair dividends each year.
- To resign over the treatment of colleagues was in keeping with the chief inspector's sense of what his line of duty entailed.
- No specific protocol governed how employees responded to calls of nature while on the clock; the guidelines said merely to discharge your line of duty responsibly.
- Most folks perform only the line of duty during regular business hours; in your role as HR Manager you know full well there will be emergency weekends to meet corporate standards of high work morale.