task

Nouns

• (n) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
  • he prepared for great undertakings
  project, undertaking, labor,
• (n) a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
  • 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 samples
  • the farmer's morning chores
  chore, job,

Verbs

• (v) assign a task to
  • I tasked him with looking after the children
• (v) use to the limit
  • you are taxing my patience
  tax,

Synonyms

Words of close approximity