double duty
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The performance of two distinct roles simultaneously or the undertaking of work for two people.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "But if a token phenomenal feel does double duty in this way (as a token of an aspect of both the pain and our way of thinking of the pain), no extra specter of dualism arises."
- "I find this anagram fascinating, a message from the god of language. Mess serves double duty here, as synonym and as anagram tip-off."
- ""working" here does double duty as an anagram indicator and as a main constituent of the definition."
- "Dunnart is undoubtedly audacious in suggesting that the first word of “Skip the front page of paper, heading for crossword instead?” might not be really doing double duty."