TASKING

Verb

tasking

present participle of task

Noun

tasking (plural taskings)

(military) A task; an assigned item of work.

Anagrams

• Gitksan, skating, skin tag, skin-tag, skintag, staking, takings

Source: Wiktionary


TASK

Task, n. Etym: [OE. taske, OF. tasque, F. tâche, for tasche, LL. tasca, taxa, fr. L. taxare to rate, appraise, estimate. See Tax, n. & v.]

1. Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount. Ma task of servile toil. Milton. Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close. Longfellow.

2. Business; employment; undertaking; labor. His mental powers were equal to greater tasks. Atterbury. To take to task. See under Take.

Syn.

– Work; labor; employment; business; toil; drudgery; study; lesson; stint.

Task, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tasked; p. pr. & vb. n. Tasking.]

1. To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to. There task thy maids, and exercise the loom. Dryden.

2. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

3. To charge; to tax; as with a fault. Too impudent to task me with those errors. Beau. & Fl.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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