shore duty

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   naval service at land bases

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Questions about shore duty

What does shore duty mean?

shore duty means "naval service at land bases".

Is shore duty a common word?

shore duty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.