task

verb

tasked; tasking; tasks

transitive verb

1

: to assign a task to

employees tasked with updating the files

2

: to oppress with great labor

tasks his mind with petty details

3

obsolete : to impose a tax on

Synonyms of task

• entrust
• charge
• trust
• assign

Examples of task in a Sentence

I have been tasked by the host with bringing the pies for Thanksgiving this year.

Recent Examples on the Web

The Marlins had yet to score when Gusto pitched his final inning, flipping the script for an offense that has often been tasked with digging Miami’s pitching staff out of an early hole. —Tyler Carmona june 11, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026

Buffy, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, was depicted as a teenager in a new town and new school who was also tasked with slaying vampires. —Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026

This was not well planned by Sony, and Bungie is now tasked with an enormous amount of work to make Marathon more popular than it was ever intended to be. —Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026

There’s street racing at night, historic circuit racing by day, and one particular stretch where our hero is tasked with stealing a car from a penthouse apartment (with actual on-foot gameplay) while also laying low from police. —Adam Ismail, The Drive, 11 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing task

• brought to task
• called to task
• sub-task
• take to task
• task bar
• task force
• the task at hand

Rhymes for task

• ask
• bask
• basque
• cask
• casque
• flask
• mask
• masque
• pasch
• subtask
• unmask

Kids Definition

task

noun

ˈtask

: a piece of assigned work

Medical Definition

task

noun

ˈtask 

: the performance that is required of the subject in a psychological experiment or test and that is usually communicated to a human subject by verbal instructions