Meaning of task | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
2. company
3. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties
4. Any piece of work done.
5. enterprise, undertaking
6. Any piece of work done
7. To reprimand or censure.
8. A single action undertaken by a given agent.
9. A single action undertaken by a given agent
10. take or bring to task, to reprimand; chide; censure.
11. A difficult or tedious undertaking.
12. A difficult or tedious undertaking
13. To force to work:drive, tax, work.
14. An objective.
15. An objective
16. a piece of especially hard work; a duty that must be done. household tasks. taak عَمَل، مُهِمّه задача tarefa úkol die Aufgabe opgave; -opgave; job έργο, καθήκονtarea (töö)ülesanne کار مشکل؛ وظیفه tehtävä tâcheמשימה काम zadatak feladat tugas verkefni, verk compito 職務 과업 užduotis uzdevums; pienākums tugas taak arbeid, oppgave, pliktzadanie كار، وظيفه، په كار ستړى كول، ډكول، بخښل، پلمه كول tarefa sar­cină, îndatorire задача; обязанность úloha naloga zadatak uppgift งานหนัก görev 艱苦的工作，任務 завдан...
    especially
17. A process or execution of a program.
18. a force selected from the armed services for a special task. taakmag قُوَّة المُهِمّات الصَّعْبَه отряд със специална задача brigada especial speciální jednotka der Kampfverband specialstyrke ειδικό στρατιωτικό απόσπασμα (με ειδική αποστολή) destacamento especial löögirühm گروه ویژه erikoisyksikkö détachement spécial כּוֹח-מְשִׂימָה कार्यबल radna skupina különítmény gugus tugas sérþjálfuð hersveit (squadra speciale) 機動部隊 기동 부대 specialios paskirties būrys/pajėgos īpašu uzdevumu (militāra) vien...
19. A tax or charge.
    obsolete
20. tarea, labor, trabajo.
21. A piece of work assigned or done as part of one's duties.
22. A difficult or tedious undertaking: Finding qualified people to fill these specialized roles was a real task.
23. A function to be performed; an objective: It is our task to renew consumer confidence.
24. To assign a task to or impose a task on: The agency was tasked with creating an advertising campaign.

Equivalents

Examples

“daily task”

“monotonous task”

“regular task”

“parental task”

“The employee refused to complete the assignment, arguing that it was not one of the tasks listed in her job description.”

“carry out a task”

“complete a task”

“Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.”

“[T]here is a well-defined run in which the stages of Atalanta’s run are punctuated by finite rests, arguably showing the possibility of completing an infinite series of finite tasks in a finite time”

“As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.”

“The user killed the frozen task.”

“Art thou the Collector of the Kings taske? […] Thou haſt thy taske money for all that be heere, […]”

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