tour of duty
noun [C] (also tour)Definition
› a period of time that someone, especially a soldier or an official, spends working in a foreign country: The soldiers have just completed a six-month tour in the Philippines.Military training and ceremoniesPolitics
(Definition of tour of duty noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- assault course noun
- attention noun (WAY OF STANDING)
- civil defence noun
- drill noun (REGULAR ACTIVITY)
- drill verb (PRACTISE)
- ease noun
- fall in phrasal verb (SOLDIERS)
- fatigue noun (ARMY)
- garrison verb
- march verb (WALK)
- national service noun
- parade noun (LINE OF PEOPLE)
- pass out phrasal verb (LEAVE COLLEGE)
- recon noun
- reconnaissance noun
- review verb (MILITARY)
- route march noun
- take the salute idiom
- tattoo noun (MILITARY SHOW)
- the trooping of the colour idiom
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