• (RP) IPA: /tɑːsk/
• (America) IPA: /tæsk/

task (plural tasks)

1. A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
2. A difficult or tedious undertaking.
3. An objective.
4. (computing) A process or execution of a program.

   The user killed the frozen task.

• (piece of work) chore, job
• (difficult undertaking) undertaking
• (objective) objective, goal
• (process) process

• French: tâche
• German: Aufgabe, Pflicht
• Italian: compito
• Portuguese: tarefa, incumbência, dever
• Russian: зада́ние
• Spanish: tarea, quehacer

• French: corvée, tâche
• Italian: incombenza
• Portuguese: incumbência
• Russian: зада́ча
• Spanish: incumbencia

• Portuguese: objetivo
• Russian: зада́ние
• Spanish: cometido

• French: tâche
• Portuguese: tarefa
• Russian: зада́ча

task (tasks, present participle tasking; past and past participle tasked)

1. (transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.

   On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.

   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 1 scene 2

     All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task / Ariel and all his quality.

   • c. 1693-1696, John Dryden, Last parting of Hector and Andromache: From the Sixth Book of Homer's Iliads

     There task thy maids, and exercise the loom.

2. (transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
3. (transitive) To charge, as with a fault.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Island Princess”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 3, scene 3:

     Too impudent to task me with those errors.

• German: Aufgabe
• Portuguese: atarefar
• Russian: поруча́ть
• Spanish: atarear

task

1. Alternative form of taisch#English|taisch