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Tour of duty is a noun that means a period of time that someone, especially a soldier or an official, spends working in a foreign country. Learn more about the meaning, usage, and synonyms of tour of duty with examples from the Hansard archive and other sources.
Tour of duty is a period of time that someone, especially a soldier or an official, spends working in a foreign country. Learn more about the meaning, pronunciation, and usage of this phrase with examples from various sources.
Tour of duty. For military personnel, a tour of duty is usually a period of time spent in combat or in a hostile environment. In an army, for instance, soldiers on active duty serve 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the length of their service commitment.
A tour of duty is a period of time when a soldier is involved in a particular duty or stationed in a particular place. Learn the word origin, synonyms, pronunciation, and usage of tour of duty with examples from the Collins Corpus.
Tour of duty definition: a period of military service in a particular theater of war, with a particular unit, or assigned to a particular task. See examples of TOUR OF DUTY used in a sentence.
noun. /ˌtʊər əv ˈdjuːti/, /ˌtɔːr əv ˈdjuːti/ /ˌtʊr əv ˈduːti/ (also tour) (plural tours of duty) a period of time when somebody is serving in the armed forces or as a diplomat in a particular place. She has served two tours of duty overseas. They have recently returned from a year-long tour of duty.
tour of duty. noun. a period of time spent in military service. synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour. see more.
