dues
/duz/ noun C1- Membership fees.
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By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues?
For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
Who knows whether or not these industrious worthies do not pay to their feudal lord some dues for his protection?”
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