Task

Definition of Task

Pronunciation: tåsk
n.1.Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
Ma task of servile toil.
- Milton.
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close.
- Longfellow.
2.Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
His mental powers were equal to greater tasks.
- Atterbury.
To take to task
See under Take.
v. t.1.To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
[imp. & p. p. Tasked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tasking.]
There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.
- Dryden.
2.To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
3.To charge; to tax, as with a fault.
Too impudent to task me with those errors.
- Beau. & Fl.

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