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task n. [
undertaking, project, labor] any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"
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task n. [
job, chore] 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 sample
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task v. assign a task to; "I tasked him with looking after the children"
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task v. [
tax] use to the limit; "you are taxing my patience"
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