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say it: task
task is a noun and verb meaning "any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted". It is pronounced /ˈtæsk/ — task. It carries 4 recorded senses.
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
“estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars”
“the job of repairing the engine took several hours”
“the endless task of classifying the samples”
“the farmer's morning chores”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for task come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.