task

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A piece of work that you have to do.

   Washing the dishes is my least favourite daily task.

2. 2
   noun

   A difficult or tiring job.

   Cleaning the whole house in one day was quite a task.

3. 3
   verb

   To give someone a job or duty to do.

   On my first day, I was tasked with sorting a huge pile of papers.

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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