Usually means: Ethical theory based on duty.
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  1. deontology: Merriam-Webster
  2. deontology: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deontology: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deontology: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Deontology, deontology: Wordnik
  6. deontology: Wiktionary
  7. deontology: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. deontology: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. deontology: Dictionary.com
  10. Deontology: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Deontology: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. deontology: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Deontology: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. deontology: FreeDictionary.org
  15. deontology: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. deontology: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deontology: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deontology: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deontology: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deontology: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. deontology: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deontology)

noun:  Synonym of ethics (“the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct”)
noun:  (specifically) The normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether the action follows certain obligations or rules, rather than on either its inherent goodness or its consequences.

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