Synonyms of tasks

tasks 1 of 2

noun

plural of task

1

as in duties

a piece of work that needs to be done regularly

one of my tasks in the morning is to make lunches for everyone in the family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• duties
• assignments
• jobs
• chores
• projects
• responsibilities
• functions
• missions
• errands
• endeavors
• operations
• enterprises
• undertakings
• posts
• offices
• stints
• care
• commissions
• routes
• chares
• charges
• circuits
• rounds

2

as in roles

the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists

the forklift's task is to stack pallets of goods in the warehouse

Synonyms & Similar Words

• roles
• purposes
• jobs
• functions
• parts
• works
• positions
• places
• capacities
• missions
• businesses
• activities
• duties
• concerns
• hands
• situations
• responsibilities
• occupations
• involvements
• services
• affairs
• offices
• assignments
• vocations
• participations
• posts
• pursuits
• callings
• uses
• niches
• employs
• commissions
• charges

tasks

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of task

as in entrusts

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

• entrusts
• trusts
• charges
• assigns
• delegates
• commissions
• imposes
• recommends
• commits
• empowers
• confers
• allocates
• authorizes
• confides
• relegates
• reposes
• consigns
• allots
• invests

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tasks

Noun

State agencies, including the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security, have helped local officials with damage assessments and power restoration, among other tasks. — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026

However, the agreement does not yet specify the humanoid model that will be used for the new logistics applications, the exact logistics tasks to be tested, the number of robots involved, or a timetable for routine deployment. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

Helping someone become confident about protecting herself online can be equally valuable, particularly as more everyday tasks move online and onto apps. — Ethan Stone october 9, Idaho Statesman, 9 Oct. 2026

The heat is sweltering, mosquitoes buzz around the apartment and routine tasks are a constant struggle. — Catherine Ellis, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026

People have been building agents to help with all sorts of tasks for years, and earlier this year a free open-source agent called OpenClaw became a Silicon Valley obsession. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026

But in my own testing, Instinct has held its own against the other two agents, handling online tasks about as well as a robot can. — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026

The company said 950 AI agents, which can independently plan and execute tasks, spent 21 hours searching the data, picking out 3,500 RTs. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026

For larger workloads, batch processing can handle multiple files for tasks such as conversion, merging, compression, OCR, printing, encryption, and adding or removing watermarks. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026

Verb

The order tasks the commission with a 120-day timeline to submit a proposal to Trump for the leadership structure, curriculum, and organizational details of the new academy. — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026

Nonetheless, the order tasks Kennedy with coming up with options to make separate shots available. — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026

Directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, the movie stars Academy Award-winner Olivia Colman as a fisherwoman who tasks a basket weaver (Peter Dinklage) with making her a wicker husband (Skarsgård). — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 30 July 2026

Odysseus tasks a young soldier named Sinon—a character who does not appear in the poem—with offering the horse to the Trojans. — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 26 July 2026

The companies at the forefront of AI know which tasks their systems are likely to absorb. — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026

The Three Peaks Challenge tasks participants with climbing the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales within 24 hours, and Princess Kate completed the trek after setting out on Saturday evening. — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026

Team JavaJuice is a team organized for FIRST Tech Challenge, a program that tasks students and their mentors with a hands-on engineering challenge of building and programming competitive, classroom-scale robots for a game that is released annually in September. — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 24 June 2026

Hence the brand tasks perfumers to encapsulate mundane episodes in bottles. — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 9 June 2026