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Definition of Tour of duty
1. Noun. A period of time spent in military service.
Generic synonyms: Period, Period Of Time, Time Period
Derivative terms: Enlist, Enlist
Definition of Tour of duty
1. Noun. (military) A period of time spent on a specific assignment, especially on an overseas mission ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tour Of Duty
Literary usage of Tour of duty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie (1809)
"ticular night, although there were two officers of the regiment, whose tour of
duty preceded mine. To the first of these she took care to sell on the very ..."
2. The Statutes of Ohio and of the Northwestern Territory, Adopted Or Enacted by Ohio, Salmon Portland Chase, Northwest Territory (1833)
"... which fine is to be recovered in the same manner as is directed in the case
of any militiaman neglecting or refusing to do a tour of duty, and that sons ..."
3. Papers of James A. Bayard, 1796-1815 by James Asheton Bayard, Robert Goodloe Harper, Elizabeth Donnan (1915)
"If the war had continued }rou would have been bound to perform your tour of duty
the alarms and objections of Mama notwithstanding. ..."
4. The Statutes of Ohio and of the Northwestern Territory, Adopted Or Enacted by Ohio, Salmon Portland Chase, Northwest Territory (1834)
"That no militiaman who has served a tour of duty, either by himself No Pcrs°n »ho
or substitute ; no militiaman who has paid the whole penalty for ..."
5. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"After a brief tour of duty during the winter in the office of the medical ...
During this latter tour of duty he acted as surgeon and naturalist to the ..."
6. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801 by George Clinton, Hugh Hastings, James Austin Holden, New York (State). Governor (1801-1804 : Clinton), New York (State). State Historian (1901)
"As Mr. John Wendell Is Imployed In the Service of the Public I do hereby Excuse
tia from the Present Tour of Duty on which he Is ordered. Ab'm Ten Broeck, ..."
7. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1876)
"As the last call was for a tour of duty, but no time " specified, ... When the
Militia are called to perform a tour of duty, and "notified by the inspector ..."
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