Pronunciations (5)
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/tɑːsk/
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/task/
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/tæsk/
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tɑːsk
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tæsk
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Noun
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. An objective or duty.
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Your task is the elimination of the termites.
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties. A process or execution of a program.
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The user killed the frozen task.
State of being subject to reprimands.
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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.
A tax or charge.
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Art thou the Collector of the Kings taske? […] Thou haſt thy taske money for all that be heere, […]
Verb
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.
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.
To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax To institute a tax on.
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To charge, as with a fault.
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Too impudent to task me with those errors.
Noun
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
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he prepared for great undertakings
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
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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
assign a task to
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I tasked him with looking after the children
use to the limit
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you are taxing my patience