what does task mean?
TASK as NOUN
- Meaning
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
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- 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 sampl
Hypernyms(s) task is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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- Meaning
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
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- he prepared for great undertakings
Hypernyms(s) task is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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TASK as VERB
- Meaning
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- you are taxing my patience
Hypernyms(s) task is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
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- I tasked him with looking after the children
Hypernyms(s) task is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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