TOUR OF DUTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tour of duty mean? 

• TOUR OF DUTY (noun)
  The noun TOUR OF DUTY has 1 sense:

1. a period of time spent in military service

  Familiarity information: TOUR OF DUTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOUR OF DUTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of time spent in military service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

duty tour; enlistment; hitch; term of enlistment; tour; tour of duty

Hypernyms ("tour of duty" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

 Context examples 

After July 1, Saturn will retreat back to Capricorn to finish his tour of duty there.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Saturn will reenter Capricorn on July 1 to finish his tour of duty and finally leave for good on December 16, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

After July 1, Saturn will reenter your career sector, but only for a few months, until December 16, 2020, to finish his tour of duty in your lofty tenth house career sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On July 1, Saturn will return to Capricorn to finish up his tour of duty in your communication sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

After July 1, Saturn will return to Capricorn to finish up his tour of duty in your twelfth house, a wonderful place to do research and to be meditative, strategic, and creative.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

After July 1, Saturn will move back into Capricorn to finish out his tour of duty in your fourth house of home and family—July 1 to December 16, 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When Saturn is done giving you a preview of what’s to come in the future, from March 20 to July 1, he will retreat back into Capricorn to finish up his tour of duty in your seventh house from July 1 to December 16.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)