task
verb
- assign someone a task, order, assignment
noun
- activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time
- assign someone a task, order, assignment
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /tɑːsk/ / /task/ / /tæsk/
noun
- Alternative form of taisch.
verb
Etymology: 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.
- To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
“On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.”
“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.”
- To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
“He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.”
- To charge, as with a fault.
“Too impudent to task me with those errors.”