Word Direct Answers

What does "task" mean?

Task: Business; employment; undertaking; labor. His mental powers were equal to greater tasks. Atterbury. To take to task. See under Take.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to. There task thy maids, and exercise the loom. Dryden.
  2. 3.To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
  3. 4.To charge; to tax; as with a fault. Too impudent to task me with those errors. Beau. & Fl.

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