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What does duty-bound mean?

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  1. Alternative spelling of dutybound
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The counsellor is duty-bound under California law to report any child abuse.
As a diplomat, Kerry is duty-bound to describe raw reality in upholstered platitudes.
The members of the ISU are duty-bound to possess this high level of expertise required of salvage professionals.
Someone knows who the culprits are and are duty-bound to report them before someone is seriously injured or even murdered.
How do we promote a sense of interdependence in which citizens feel not just enabled to correct inaccurate reports, but duty-bound to do so?
We are duty-bound to manage our environment so that future generations may equally enjoy it.

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