Usually means: Performing tasks during official work.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word in the line of duty:

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  1. in the line of duty: Merriam-Webster
  2. in the line of duty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. in the line of duty: Collins English Dictionary
  4. in the line of duty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. in the line of duty: Wiktionary
  6. in the line of duty: Dictionary.com
  7. In the Line of Duty (film series), In the Line of Duty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. in the line of duty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. in the line of duty: Idioms

Definitions from Wikipedia (In the Line of Duty)

noun:  In the Line of Duty, sometimes referred to as the Yes Madam series, is a series of girls with guns feature films produced by Hong Kong movie studio D & B Films which star, in the first two, Michelle Yeoh and, in subsequent installments, Cynthia Khan as a Royal Hong Kong Police Force officer who combines use of firearms with Kickboxing.
noun:  (German: Im Banne der Pflicht) a 1917 Austrian silent drama film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck and starring Wilhelm Klitsch, Marie Marchal and Karl Baumgartner.


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