Meaning

9 senses
  1. (countable)A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.

    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.

    a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee

  2. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.

    (uncountable)A state of diligence in work on a task.

    I put him to task on the chores.

  3. (countable)Any piece of work done.

    carry out a task

    complete a task

    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted

  4. (countable)A single action undertaken by a given agent.

    Each member of the team completed tasks in service of the goal.

  5. (countable)A difficult or tedious undertaking; a substantial project.

    Getting him to change his behavior will be quite a task for you.

    I'm currently working on the task she gave me, alphabetizing all of those print files.

    зада́чаzadáča

    зада́чаzadáča

  6. (countable)An objective or duty.

    Your task is the elimination of the termites.

    зада́ниеzadánije, зада́чаzadáča, цельcelʹ

    завда́нняzavdánnja, цільcilʹ, мета́metá

  7. (countable)A process or execution of a program.

    The user killed the frozen task.

    зада́чаzadáča

  8. (uncountable)State of being subject to reprimands.

    call to task, take to task

    I will put him to task for what he's done.

  9. (countable, obsolete)A tax or charge.

Examples

618 sentences
  1. They assigned the task to us.

    Вони призначили це завдання нам.

    ruОни поручили задание нам.

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  2. That won't be an easy task.

    Це не буде простою задачею.

    ruЭто будет непростой задачей.

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  3. This task is too much for me.

    Ця задача мені не під силу.

    ruЭта задача мне не по силам.

    deDiese Aufgabe ist zu viel für mich.

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  4. Although it is a very difficult task, I will do my best.

    Хоча це і дуже складне завдання, я зроблю все, що від мене залежить.

    ruХотя это задание и очень сложное, я сделаю всё, что от меня зависит.

    deEs ist eine ziemlich schwierige Aufgabe, aber ich werde mein Bestes geben.

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  5. It's not an easy task.

    Це непроста задача.

    ruЭто непростая задача.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
piece of work done as part of one’s duties:
objective:
Русский
By meaning 2
piece of work done as part of one’s duties:
objective:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
piece of work done as part of one’s duties:

Origin

From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old Fre

From Middle English taske (“task, tax”), from Old Northern French tasque, (compare Old French variant tasche), from Medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to censure; to charge”). Doublet of tax.

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Forms

plural: tasks
Singulartask
Pluraltasks

regular

Synonyms

13 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

43 related words

Collocations

4 patterns
  • an easy task
  • easy task
  • to the task
  • this task is

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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