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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishtaske(“task, tax”), fromOld Northern Frenchtasque, (compare Old French varianttasche), fromMedieval Latintasca, alteration oftaxa, fromLatintaxāre(“censure; charge”).Doublet oftax.

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Noun

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task (pluraltasks)

  1. Apiece ofwork done aspart of one’sduties.
    The employee refused to complete the assignment, arguing that it was not one of thetasks listed in her job description.
  2. Any piece of work done.
    • 2013 July 19,Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 6, page34:
      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 mentaltasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
  3. A singleaction undertaken by a givenagent.
  4. Adifficult ortediousundertaking.
    • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8848:
      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 thatSisypheantask looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug beenblacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
  5. Anobjective.
  6. (computing) Aprocess orexecution of a program.
    The user killed the frozentask.
  7. (obsolete) Atax orcharge.
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Collocations
  • Adjectives often applied to "task": difficult, easy, simple, hard, tough, complex, not-so-easy, challenging, complicated, tricky, formidable, arduous, laborious, onerous, small, big, huge, enormous, tremendous, gigantic, mammoth, colossal, gargantuan, social, intellectual, theological, important, basic, trivial, unpleasant, demanding, pleasant, noble, painful, grim, responsible, rewarding, boring, ungrateful, delightful, glorious, agreeable, thankless.
Translations
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piece of work done as part of one’s duties
difficult or tedious undertaking
objective
process or execution of a program
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Verb

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task (third-person singular simple presenttasks,present participletasking,simple past and past participletasked)

  1. (transitive) Toassign a task to, orimpose a task on.
    On my first day in the office, I wastasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
    • 1610–1611 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene ii]:
      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 biddingtask / Ariel and all his quality.
    • a.1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The Last Parting ofHector andAndromache. From the Sixth Book of theIliad.”, inThe Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published1760,→OCLC:
      Theretask thy maids, and exercise the loom.
    • 2021 May 19, “Network News: HS2 unearths 900 years of history in Buckinghamshire”, inRAIL, number931, page23:
      By 1966 the building was considered so unsafe that the Royal Engineers weretasked with demolishing it.
  2. (transitive) Tooppress with severe or excessiveburdens; totax
  3. (transitive) Tocharge, as with afault.
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Translations
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assign a task to

Etymology 2

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Noun

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task

  1. Alternative form oftaisch

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Swedish

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Noun

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task c

  1. (colloquial) adick (penis)

Declension

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Declension oftask
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitetasktasks
definitetaskentaskens
pluralindefinitetaskartaskars
definitetaskarnataskarnas

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