(errands)
1.
An errand is a short trip that you make in order to do a job for someone, for example when you go to a shop to buy something for them.
She went off on some errand...
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2.
If you run an errand for someone, you do or get something for them, usually by making a short trip somewhere.
She was forever running errands for her housebound grandmother...
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