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

The Vigiles were also tasked with maintaining public order at night, and their nearby barracks used water from an aqueduct. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

Launched on August 10, Lunar Orbiter 1 was tasked with taking close-up pictures of the moon, in particular, nine possible landing sites for the upcoming Apollo missions. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2026

The man tasked with defending the GOP’s Senate majority is South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. — NBC news, 23 Aug. 2026

Sumrall is tasked with bringing Florida back to its glory days after taking over for Billy Napier. — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2026

Timpson spent most of the night tasked with slowing down Stewart but racked up fouls early and spent almost half of the first quarter on the bench. — Annie Costabile, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

What is notable about the 21st-century PMC, then, is that the type of people who are tasked with championing capitalism to the public have lost their faith. — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 22 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