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task

From Wiktionary
task is on the Academic Word List.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Singular
task

Plural
tasks

Task is on the Academic Vocabulary List.
  1. A task is a specific piece of work, often unpleasant.
    Come here, young man. I have a task for you to do.
    Telecommunications systems for hotels now perform many more tasks than just allowing people to make telephone calls.
    When I was young, I had the task of milking the cows.
  2. If you take someone to task, you criticise them strongly.
    Father took her to task for taking the car without asking.

Verb

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Plain form
task

Third-person singular
tasks

Past tense
tasked

Past participle
tasked

Present participle
tasking

  1. If you task someone with doing something, you give them that job.
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