task

Significado (Inglês)

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.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/tɑːsk/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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.