fatigue duty
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fatigue
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Noun (1)
- labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on)“the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson”“they were assigned to kitchen fatigues”Synonyms: fatigueType of assignment, duty assignment
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Fatigue duty
Military, labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. Farrow, Edward S.
From the entry Fatigue.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54