tour of duty

English

Noun

tour of duty (plural tours of duty)

1. (military) A period of time spent on a specific assignment, especially on an overseas mission.
   • 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 45:

     Almost every Marine in Viet Nam carries a short-timer’s calendar of his tour of duty—the usual 365 days—plus a bonus of 20 days for being a Marine.

Translations

period of time spent on a specific assignment, especially on an overseas mission

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 任期 (zh) (rènqī)

• Finnish: palvelusaika, komennusaika
• German: Auslandseinsatz (de) m
• Spanish: misión (es) f