Synonyms of tasked

tasked

verb

past tense of task

as in entrusted

to give a task, duty, or responsibility to

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• entrusted
• assigned
• charged
• trusted
• commissioned
• imposed
• recommended
• delegated
• committed
• conferred
• allotted
• allocated
• authorized
• empowered
• relegated
• confided
• invested
• consigned
• reposed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tasked

Caldini, who was appointed to the chief executive role in early 2025, is now tasked with continuing to grow Motiva’s presence beyond its current 20% market share. — Emma Sandler, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Lawrence Johnson, Ryan Gadson and De’Vontae Floyd are expected to step into starting roles and provide an immediate boost to a secondary that will be tasked with holding up against Conference USA’s passing attacks. — Alejandro Hernandez, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026

She was tasked with growing OpenAI’s enterprise unit, a high-margin part of the business that aims to directly take on the company’s chief rival, Anthropic. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026

Chris Katra has been tasked with keeping track of incidents of people who are released from pretrial custody and soon rearrested. — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

She’s tasked with apprehending The Puppet Master (Iemasa Kayumi), a hacker who appears to be tapping directly into these networked minds and altering memories. — David Faris, TheWeek, 14 Aug. 2026

The tax court said Congress — not the state legislature — is tasked with regulating interstate commerce, and that the tax law was inappropriately based on global revenue rather than revenue from in-state advertising. — ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026

In the current framework, the BOP aims to establish a National Committee for the Administration of Gaza — an international, technocratic body tasked with running the civilian government of the strip. — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2026

The company is tasked with building what the agency is calling the SMART system, short for Strategic Management of Airspace, Routes, and Trajectories. — Joel Rose, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026