He has been taking duty for me since I could not do it myself.

He is ' taking duty'.

As the first half gathered pace Shane Carey (Monaghan) and Cavan ace Jack Brady were kept particularly busy on free- taking duty.

They passed the Proprietary School and saw a yellow picture framed and glazed, of Mr. Bonover taking duty for his aberrant assistant master.

'To provide against this difficulty, landlords adopted a system of taking duty-work, in fact, in a new form.

"This is taking duty a little far, Laurence; a fine thing when a naval officer chooses to jump ship for the Corps."