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TASK

undertaking, project, task, labor - n 
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings" 

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Synonyms

assignment, burden, business, duty, effort, exercise, function, project, responsibility, undertaking, work, bother, calling, charge, employment, enterprise, errand, gig, grind, grindstone, headache, labor, load, millstone, mission, nuisance, occupation, office

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Examples

He didn't feel up to the task, not when failure meant breaking the man he viewed as his brother.

At least somebody else would get the distasteful task of telling a wailing Mrs. Wassermann one of her bouncing baby boys was stretched out on a marble slab in Norfolk, Virginia.

When she completed her task, she stepped up on the velvet chair, after modestly lifting her skirt ever so slightly.

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Etymology

early 14c., "a quantity of labor imposed as a duty," from Old North French tasque (12c., Old French tasche, Modern French tâche) "duty, tax," from Vulgar Latin *tasca "a duty, assessment," metathesis of Medieval Latin taxa, a back-formation of Latin taxare "to evaluate, estimate, assess" (see tax (v.)). General sense of "any piece of work that has to be done" is first recorded 1590s. Phrase take one to task (1680s) preserves the sense that is closer to tax.

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