task — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.

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   Synonyme

   assignmentchorejob

   Oberbegriffe

   roster

   Beispiele

   daily task, monotonous task, regular task, parental task

   The employee refused to complete the assignment, arguing that it was not one of the tasks listed in her job description.

2. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. A state of diligence in work on a task.

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   I put him to task on the chores.

3. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. Any piece of work done.

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   carry out a task

   complete a task

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   Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

4. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. A single action undertaken by a given agent.

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   Each member of the team completed tasks in service of the goal.

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   [T]here is a well-defined run in which the stages of Atalanta’s run are punctuated by finite rests, arguably showing the possibility of completing an infinite series of finite tasks in a finite time

5. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. A difficult or tedious undertaking; a substantial project.

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   Getting him to change his behavior will be quite a task for you.

   I'm currently working on the task she gave me, alphabetizing all of those print files.

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   Solving the economy is an enormous task for the ministry.

   As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

6. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. An objective or duty.

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   goalobjective

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   Your task is the elimination of the termites.

7. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. A process or execution of a program.

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   process

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   The user killed the frozen task.

8. State of being subject to reprimands.

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   hot seat

   Beispiele

   call to task, take to task

   I will put him to task for what he's done.

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   Can she hold us to task for that?

   I hope somebody has brought him to task by now.

9. A tax or charge.

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   Synonyme

   levy

   Beispiele

   Art thou the Collector of the Kings taske? […] Thou haſt thy taske money for all that be heere, […]

Verb

1. To assign a task to; to impose a task on.

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   On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.

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   All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality.

   There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.

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   By 1966 the building was considered so unsafe that the Royal Engineers were tasked with demolishing it.

2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax

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   He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.

3. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax To institute a tax on.

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   Synonyme

   levytax

4. To charge, as with a fault.

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   Beispiele

   Too impudent to task me with those errors.

Substantiv

1. any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

   Synonyme

   undertakingprojectlaborlabour

   Oberbegriffe

   work

   Beispiele

   he prepared for great undertakings

2. a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

   Synonyme

   jobchore

   Oberbegriffe

   duty

   Beispiele

   estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars

   the job of repairing the engine took several hours

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   the endless task of classifying the samples

   the farmer's morning chores

Verb

1. assign a task to

   Oberbegriffe

   delegatedesignatedeputeassign

   Beispiele

   I tasked him with looking after the children

2. use to the limit

   Synonyme

   tax

   Oberbegriffe

   strainextend

   Beispiele

   you are taxing my patience