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

Their work tends to be cognitive or procedurally complex, such as accounting, legal tasks, or specialized customer support. — Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Key Takeaways Explosive power is crucial for daily tasks like standing and climbing stairs, as well as for preventing falls. — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 26 July 2026

Better yet, save any sensitive tasks for a more private setting, like your hotel room. — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2026

The new model outperforms Fable 5 on tasks like knowledge work, novel problem solving, and agentic search. — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 25 July 2026

Robots need large amounts of such data to learn how people perform tasks and interact with their surroundings. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 19 July 2026

Rearrange a schedule, automate a reminder, or create a small system that keeps bills, tasks, or energy from leaking through the cracks. — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026

Treating more patients in less time in understaffed offices while managing burgeoning patient portal messages and inbox tasks has stolen from PCPs time to thoughtfully evaluate and care for patients. — Torie Bosch, STAT, 18 July 2026

Verb

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

The preamble to the Illinois Constitution tasks the state with some specific objectives — like eliminating poverty and inequality and ensuring legal, social and economic justice. — Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2026

The order tasks the Labor and Workforce Development Agency with producing a report within three months on how AI will disrupt the workforce and drafting regulations within the following six months. — Sacbee.com, 21 May 2026

The law also tasks museums with the mission to research provenance within their collections. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 8 May 2026