noun, verb
noun a piece of work that sb has to do, especially a hard or unpleasant one:
to perform / carry out / complete / undertake a task * a daunting / an impossible / a formidable / an unenviable task * a thankless task (= an unpleasant one that nobody wants to do and nobody thanks you for doing) * Our first task is to set up a communications system. * Detectives are now faced with the task of identifying the body. * Getting hold of this information was no easy task (= was difficult). * It was my task to wake everyone up in the morning.
IDIOMS
take sb to task (for / over sth) to criticize sb strongly for sth they have done:
The local newspaper has been taking the city council to task over its transport policy.
verb [VN] [usuallypassive] ~ sb (with sth) (formal) to give sb a task to do:
NATO troops were tasked with keeping the peace.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for task is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does task appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — task appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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