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active duty meaning

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WActive duty

Active duty refers to a full-time occupation as part of a military force, as opposed to reserve duty. In Great Britain and the Commonwealth the equivalent term is active service.

Definition of active duty in English Dictionary

Noun
1. A state in which person in the military performs military duties on a full-time basis, as opposed to reserve, where one only occasionally performs military duties.
  1. Sandie, the naval officer, left work because she had been called to active duty.

Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
1. Nouns
  - Singularia tantum
    - Uncountable nouns

Source: Wiktionary

Meaning of active duty for the defined word.

Grammatically, this idiom "active duty" is a noun, more specifically, a singularia tantum.

Definiteness: Level 1

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