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light-duty
[ lahyt-doo-tee, -dyoo- ]
adjective
- made or designed to withstand comparatively moderate loads, use, or stress:
light-duty trucks.
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Next day I found quite a squad of light-duty men, and sent 'em to dismantle and bring down Chaucer's hut.
Indeed, when another week was gone he declared that Owen might return to light duty.
You know I'm hard as nails; I'm sure I could manage to hang on to the saddle, and be fit for light duty in a few days' time.
He's afraid to tackle it; so he has asked me to wish you light duty, heavy pay, and double rations in civil life.
The surgeons had called it something ending in osis and prescribed finally "light duty."
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