What (who) is tasks - definition
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Tasks; Operational task; Task (disambiguation)
task
(tasks, tasking tasked)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A task is an activity or piece of work which you have to do, usually as part of a larger project.
She used the day to catch up with administrative tasks.
N-COUNT: usu N of -ing, supp N
2.
If you are tasked with doing a particular activity or piece of work, someone in authority asks you to do it.
The minister was tasked with checking that British aid money was being spent wisely.
VERB: be V-ed with n/-ing
3.
If you take someone to task, you criticize them or tell them off because of something bad or wrong that they have done.
The country's intellectuals are also being taken to task for their failure to speak out against the regime.
= rebuke
PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR for n/-ing
task
n.
1) to carry out, do, fulfill, perform; cope with; take on, undertake a task
2) to assign smb. a task
3) a delicate, ticklish; difficult; fruitless, hopeless; Herculean, monumental; irksome; menial; onerous; pleasant; unpleasant; unwelcome; welcome task
4) (misc.) to take smb. to task for smt. ('to criticize smb. for smt.')
task
I. n.
1.
Work, labor, toil, drudgery.
2.
Employment, business, undertaking, enterprise, work, labor.
3.
Lesson, exercise.
II. v. a.
1.
Impose a task on.
2.
Burden, oppress, tax.
Wikipedia
Task
Task may refer to:
- Task (computing), in computing, a program execution context
- Task (language instruction) refers to a certain type of activity used in language instruction
- Task (project management), an activity that needs to be accomplished within a defined period of time
- Task (teaching style)
- TASK party, a series of improvisational participatory art-related events organized by artist Oliver Herring
- Two-pore-domain potassium channel, a family of potassium ion channels
Pronunciation examples for tasks
1. tasks.
Computing Trends Change Everything _ Jon Koomey _ Talks at Google
2. tasks.
A Short Introduction to Miracles _ Yujin Nagasawa _ Talks at Google
3. assigned tasks.
How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter _ Liz Wiseman & Greg McKeown _ Talks at Google
4. of tasks.
The Second Machine Age _ Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee _ Talks at Google
5. repetitive tasks.
Data and Goliath - The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data _ Bruce Schneier _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of tasks
1. They were assigned harder tasks than other prophets and were required to live up to their tasks.
2. The astronauts also completed some housekeeping tasks.
3. The extra brainpower makes men better suited to ‘tasks of high complexity‘ but tends not to be used for everyday tasks.
4. Embracing that primary responsibility would make all my other tasks secondary, or it would enable me to see how my other tasks are a part of that mission.
5. Deputy PM Khiem set out seven major tasks for the sector with a view to successfully fulfilling tasks put forth by the 10th National Party Congress.