What does tour of duty mean?

tour of duty means "a period of time spent in military service".

What is another word for tour of duty?

Close synonyms include enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, duty tour, tour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tour of duty a common word?

tour of 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.

tour of duty — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a period of time spent in military service
Synonymsenlistment hitch term of enlistment duty tour tour
Broadertime period

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What does tour of duty mean?: tour of duty means "a period of time spent in military service".

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