task
verb/tɑːsk/
/tæsk/
[usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they task | /tɑːsk/ /tæsk/ |
| he / she / it tasks | /tɑːsks/ /tæsks/ |
| past simple tasked | /tɑːskt/ /tæskt/ |
| past participle tasked | /tɑːskt/ /tæskt/ |
| -ing form tasking | /ˈtɑːskɪŋ/ /ˈtæskɪŋ/ |
- to give somebody a task to do
- be tasked with something NATO troops were tasked with keeping the peace.
Word OriginMiddle English: from an Old Northern French variant of Old French tasche, from medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxare ‘censure, charge’, perhaps from Greek tassein ‘fix’. An early sense of the verb was ‘impose a tax on’.
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