noun
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A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
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A difficult or tedious undertaking.
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An objective.
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A process or execution of a program.
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The user killed the frozen task.
verb
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To assign a task to, or 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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To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
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To charge, as with a fault.
Examples of task in a Sentence
It's not an easy task to learn.
He didn't feel up to the task, not when failure meant breaking the man he viewed as his brother.
She almost laughed, feeling overwhelmed by her task and uneasy in the stranger's house.
Cade probably wouldn't be the least bit intimidated by the task, though.
Her lean body handled the strenuous task easily.
At least somebody else would get the distasteful task of telling a wailing Mrs. Wassermann one of her bouncing baby boys was stretched out on a marble slab in Norfolk, Virginia.
The task of Cromwell was far greater.
She kept her focus on the task of loading her plate, avoiding his gaze.
We tried not to look suspicious, a difficult task as we were used to working undisturbed.
Jule's text message brought him back to the unpleasant task ahead of him.
When she completed her task, she stepped up on the velvet chair, after modestly lifting her skirt ever so slightly.
Mr Stuart did not finish his task on this occasion, on account of indisposition and other causes.
Any task a computer can do better than a person is, by definition, a task requiring no human creativity or ingenuity.
To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem.
Her task was accomplished.
She set herself a task on her stocking and resolved not to turn round till it was finished.
As our activities grew, the task became more daunting.
Much as he disliked making Fred wait, he decided to put off the task until nine o'clock but another phone call forced a change of plans.
Fred joined Dean in the dining room, taking up the duty of chatting with the guests, a task Dean was not yet ready to perform after a less-than-complete night's sleep.
Nor had he made any sense of his deliberations but finally his mind quit the task and allowed his exhausted body to sink into a deep sleep.
Dean blanked from his mind what he was about to do, concentrating on the task at hand.
At any rate, he might not find the task at hand as unpleasant as she anticipated it would be.
The afternoon was a blur as Dean's mind alternated between the task at hand and the sobering fact that he might be within miles, or perhaps yards, of Cynthia Byrne's missing husband.
She returned her attention to the task at hand, warmth creeping up her face.
She failed her task and managed to piss off the new boss, all because she got nervous seeing a half-naked man.
This difficult task was accomplished by Count Peter Tolstoi, the most subtle and unscrupulous of Peter's servants; but terrorized though he was, Alexius would only consent to return on his father solemnly swearing, "before God and His judgment seat," that if he came back he should not be punished in the least, but cherished as a son and allowed to live quietly on his estates and marry Afrosina.
He was entrusted with the task of drawing up a revised constitution, which was known as the Pacte Rossi.
Hastings's personal task was to provide the ways and means for this exhausting war.
Nothing but Cicero's wish to do a favour to Pompey could have induced him to take up what must have been a distasteful task; indeed, it is hinted that the half-heartedness of the defence materially contributed to Gabinius's condemnation.
In October 1533 he was entrusted with the unmannerly task of intimating to Clement VII., while he was the guest of Francis I.
These triumphs, however, had all been obtained by force of arms; the more difficult task now awaited Cromwell of governing England by parliament and by law.
It is a labor to task the faculties of a man--such problems of profit and loss, of interest, of tare and tret, and gauging of all kinds in it, as demand a universal knowledge.
He was so much interested in that task that he was unable to sleep, and in spite of his cold which had grown worse from the dampness of the evening, he went into the large division of the tent at three o'clock in the morning, loudly blowing his nose.
Having devoted much time to the study of the Latin writers, historians, orators and poets, and filled his mind with stories of the glories and the power of ancient Rome, he turned his thoughts to the task of restoring his native city to its pristine greatness, his zeal for this work being quickened by the desire to avenge his brother, who had been killed by a noble, a member of the ruling class.
Unfortunately, the new president was unequal to the task of composing the differences in his party.
The limited knowledge which we possess of the original features of the ground within the area of the city makes a reconstruction of the topographical history of the latter a difficult task; and, as a natural result, many irreconcilable theories have been suggested.
The great task of adjusting the financial business of the Commonwealth on a permanent basis was one of very great difficulty, as the apparent interests of the states and of the Commonwealth were opposed.
By the fixing of this principle the task of the inventor was considerably simplified.
This task Bentham undertook, and he brought to it a mind absolutely free from professional or class feeling, or any other species of prejudice.
He left the task of verification largely to Wood.
Strabo especially takes Onesicritus to task for his exaggeration and love of the marvellous.
He was released from captivity only at the end of the war, and on his return was at once appointed by the Versailles government to a command in the army engaged in the suppression of the Commune, a task in the execution of which he displayed great rigour.
He had nearly finished this last task when a low growling was suddenly heard and the horse began to jump around and kick viciously with his heels.
Remember the notion that the Internet wouldn't turn out to be only for one purpose—that while my car is clearly for taking me places, the Internet won't be for doing one single task, but many?
So now that the task of remembering past purchases and using that information to suggest future purchases is completely transitioned to machines, it operates on a whole different scale.
But if each of ten people specialized on just one-tenth of the task, they could together make 48,000, an increase in per-person productivity from one pin a day to 4,800 pins per day.
Any task that could be done a machine is, by definition, dehumanizing to a human being.
The farmers had to learn what it meant to be paid by the hour and to take instructions from supervisors; how to do a task and then the next day, learn a completely new task and do it instead.
I pointed this out to everybody with provoking persistency, but no one seemed equal to the task of providing the doll with eyes.
Sometimes it really seems as if the task which we have set ourselves were more than we can accomplish; but at other times I enjoy my work more than I can say.