| task | | |
| n. (act) | 1. labor, project, task, undertaking | any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted.; "he prepared for great undertakings" |
| ~ child's play, cinch, duck soup, piece of cake, breeze, picnic, pushover, walkover, snap | any undertaking that is easy to do.; "marketing this product will be no picnic" |
| ~ work | activity directed toward making or doing something.; "she checked several points needing further work" |
| ~ adventure, dangerous undertaking, escapade, risky venture | a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful). |
| ~ assignment | an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor). |
| ~ baby | a project of personal concern to someone.; "this project is his baby" |
| ~ endeavor, endeavour, enterprise | a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness).; "he had doubts about the whole enterprise" |
| ~ labor of love, labour of love | productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation. |
| ~ endurance contest, marathon | any long and arduous undertaking. |
| ~ no-brainer | anything that requires little thought. |
| ~ proposition | a task to be dealt with.; "securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition" |
| ~ large order, tall order | a formidable task or requirement.; "finishing in time was a tall order but we did it" |
| ~ venture | any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome. |
| ~ manhattan project | code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II. |
| n. (act) | 2. chore, job, task | 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" |
| ~ duty | work that you are obliged to perform for moral or legal reasons.; "the duties of the job" |
| ~ ball-breaker, ball-buster | a job or situation that is demanding and arduous and punishing.; "Vietnam was a ball-breaker" |
| ~ stint | an individual's prescribed share of work.; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her" |
| ~ scut work, shitwork | trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores.; "the hospital hired him to do scut work" |
| v. (social) | 3. task | assign a task to.; "I tasked him with looking after the children" |
| ~ assign, delegate, designate, depute | give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). |
| v. (consumption) | 4. task, tax | use to the limit.; "you are taxing my patience" |
| ~ strain, extend | use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity.; "He really extended himself when he climbed Kilimanjaro"; "Don't strain your mind too much" |
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