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Task

//tɑːsk// noun, verb

Definitions

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

    "daily task"

  2. 2
    Alternative form of taisch. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee wordnet
  4. 4
    Any piece of work done.

    "carry out a task"

  5. 5
    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted wordnet
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  1. 6
    A single action undertaken by a given agent.

    "[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"

  2. 7
    A difficult or tedious undertaking.

    "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."

  3. 8
    An objective.
  4. 9
    A process or execution of a program.

    "The user killed the frozen task."

  5. 10
    A tax or charge. obsolete

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To assign a task to, or impose a task on. transitive

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

  2. 2
    use to the limit wordnet
  3. 3
    To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax transitive

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

  4. 4
    assign a task to wordnet
  5. 5
    To charge, as with a fault. transitive

    "Too impudent to task me with those errors."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to censure; to charge”). Doublet of tax.

Etymology 2

From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to censure; to charge”). Doublet of tax.

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