task

Oznaczający (English)

Noun

1. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
2. Any piece of work done.
3. A single action undertaken by a given agent.
4. A difficult or tedious undertaking.
5. An objective.
6. A process or execution of a program.
7. (obsolete) A tax or charge.

Verb

1. To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
3. To charge, as with a fault.

Synonyms

job

work

duty

assignment

business

mission

chore

labour

labor

responsibility

function

lesson

obligation

activity

occupation

errand

undertaking

objective

stint

employment

project

problem

charge

tax

homework

duties

burden

deed

role

service

action

use

commission

effort

office

🏢

mandate

part

material

serve

affair

responsibilities

procedure

construction

🚧

hometask

piece of work

place

exercise

enterprise

thing

theme

operation

subject

venture

vocation

warrant

works

writ

assigned job

declaratory judgment

school work

work party

class materials

operating duty

working position

act

aim

application

assign

attend

blueprint

campaign

care

chores

commitment

company

crusade

demand

devotion

difficulty

do

doing

drive

endeavor

favor

functions

goal

hard work

housekeeping

housework

jobs

load

make

manufacture

matter

object

official duty

onus

opus

order

perform

performance

petition

plan

profession

rehearsal

responsability

routine

scheme

setting

situation

step

summons

toil

trade

travail

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

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Etymologia (English)

Inherited from średnioangielski: taske

In summary

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 taxāre (“censure; charge”). Doublet of tax.