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What does on-duty mean?

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Prepositional phrase
  1. Alternative spelling of on duty
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One out of every eight weeks I am the on-duty seismologist, so I have to respond to an earthquake as soon as it happens, even if it's in the middle of the night.
Sirene bureau staff shall have the linguistic skills covering as wide a range of languages as possible and on-duty staff shall able to communicate with all Sirene bureaux.
A source insisted there was a 25 per cent turnout of estate police on Friday and noted that this had put a strain on their on-duty colleagues.
When Mandy collapsed, the local on-duty technician did not respond to a 999 call because he was on his tea break.
The on-duty nurses assigned the participants to the intervention.
No army cares for its sick and wounded while neglecting its on-duty, frontline soldiers.

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