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synonyms for tasks

  • undertaking
  • responsibility
  • daily grind
  • fun and games
  • long row to hoe

antonyms for tasks

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How to use tasks in a sentence

As more people come online, the most basic tasks —such as going out to the market to sell produce—will become more efficient.

He describes these tasks as “more work than most of the subscribers think”.

My tasks vary from marketing to writing a page for a magazine.

Here is a title that, in its prologue, tasks players with fighting a horde of angels on top of a moving jet.

Do some kids struggle more than others to attend to tasks , both academic and household?

Teachers often complain that they can never induce some of their pupils to ask questions on their tasks .

Indeed, 'we have laid upon him various arduous tasks touching the state of the country, and especially its tranquillity.'

All who were standing hurried to their tasks at this word of command, and all who were sitting as promptly rose.

In his class, which then consisted of three male students and a host of women, Rubinstein would often set the most comical tasks .

One of the first immediate tasks to be done was the training of soldiers in Virginia and the acquiring of cannon and fire-arms.

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a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.

any piece of work.

a matter of considerable labor or difficulty.

Obsolete . a tax or impost.

to subject to severe or excessive labor or exertion; put a strain upon (powers, resources, etc.).

to impose a task on.

Obsolete . to tax.

of or relating to a task or tasks: A task chart will help organize the department's work.

Idioms about task

take to task , to call to account; blame; censure: The teacher took them to task for not doing their homework.

Origin of task

Synonym study for task, other words for task, other words from task.

  • taskless, adjective
  • subtask, noun
  • un·tasked, adjective

Words Nearby task

  • taskmistress
  • task-oriented

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How to use task in a sentence

They provide response playbooks, help assign tasks to the correct team members, and help capture records of how and when your company took action.

The beauty of it all is that once your papers are organized, your space is cleaner and your tasks are accomplished quicker.

A hashtag challenge is a unique TikTok’s content format where brands ask users to post a certain task using a specific hashtag.

Today’s technologies aren’t up to the task of deep decarbonization.

You can also right-click on the app and choose End task from there.

In 2011 LGBT media outlet Queerty took the app to task for allegedly deleting accounts that made reference to being trans.

Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

Sabrine is a trained lawyer, likely a helpful quality when your task is to push politicians.

It was a complex task they were asked to do, and every cultural and experiential advantage would be required.

Before dying in 1219, Marshal would begin the task of rebuilding England after decades of war.

And it was no light task , then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.

Will the new issues promptly retire when their special task is over?

He sighed as he laid the papers on the table; for he thought the task would be a harder one than even his own immolation.

Having accomplished his task within three months Datto Mandi withdrew with all his men, except two who wished to settle at Pardo.

Through the beautiful, windy autumn days, he labored at his difficult task , the task of telling a story.

British Dictionary definitions for task

/ ( tɑːsk ) /

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

an unpleasant or difficult job or duty

any piece of work

take to task to criticize or reprove

to assign a task to

to subject to severe strain; tax

Derived forms of task

  • tasker , noun
  • taskless , adjective

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Other Idioms and Phrases with task

see take to task.

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Task Synonyms and Antonyms

  • undertaking
  • responsibility
  • entertainment

Words Related to Task

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Task Sentence Examples

It's not an easy task to learn.

He didn't feel up to the task , not when failure meant breaking the man he viewed as his brother.

She almost laughed, feeling overwhelmed by her task and uneasy in the stranger's house.

Cade probably wouldn't be the least bit intimidated by the task , though.

Her lean body handled the strenuous task easily.

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