[
US
/ˈtæsk/
]
[ UK /tˈɑːsk/ ]
[ UK /tˈɑːsk/ ]
VERB
-
use to the limit
you are taxing my patience -
assign a task to
I tasked him with looking after the children
NOUN
-
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
he prepared for great undertakings -
a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
the endless task of classifying the samples
the job of repairing the engine took several hours
the farmer's morning chores
estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars
How To Use task In A Sentence
- She is daunted by the task ahead in the second of the six-part series. The Sun
- A former BMX enthusiast, Moore switched to motocross a couple of years ago and he has since taken on gradually more difficult tasks.
- The engine on the X-51, called a supersonic-combustion ramjet, or "scramjet," pulls off a couple of especially tricky tasks. When Supersonic Is Just Too Slow
- In an effort to take some of the beguilement out of her young eyes, I make light of your dark and somber task.
- The bundled documentation contains the detailed instructions on how to do these tasks.
- As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.
- Your Manager will probably also want to comment on how you prepare for, accomplish and present completed tasks.
- What seemed an easy task becomes complicated by locals' objections and, ultimately, the landman's own crisis of conscience.
- This can not be done through any system of methods, neither are narrow interests or unexacting tasks sufficient to arouse all that the soul has now to give. The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training
- The size of the task ahead is daunting. The Sun
