noun
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
daily task
monotonous task
Any piece of work done.
carry out a task
complete a task
A single action undertaken by a given agent.
[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
A difficult or tedious undertaking.
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.
An objective.
verb
To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality.
To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
To charge, as with a fault.
Too impudent to task me with those errors.
noun
Alternative form of taisch.