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Definition of task : 1. Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
2. Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
3. To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
4. To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
5. To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

Synonyms:

parturiency, caper, childbed, assess, confinement, trade union movement, line of work, assignment, line, lying-in, stint, projection, duty, travail, office, labor movement, drive, responsibility, crack the whip, heavy, proletariat, role, working class, purpose, labour, function, problem, business, tax, do

enterprise, maneuver, adventure, project, pursuit, performance, endeavor, initiative, undertaking, affair, exploit, procedure, scheme, deed, production, venture, campaign, activity, feat

occupation, job, toil, work, employment, labor, effort, chore

Usage examples:

• He pushed some papers off the long table beside him, and Maxwell sat down to his task. - "The Quality of Mercy", W. D. Howells.
• I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself. - "Stories of Authors, British and American", Edwin Watts Chubb.
• And now, just for that, we're in for something of a task. - "The Blue Envelope", Roy J. Snell.