Слово англійською: task

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Переклад task українською: завдання

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task

noun
/tæsk/
  1. a piece of work that somebody has to do, especially a hard or unpleasant one
    • to accomplish/perform/undertake/complete a task
    • a difficult/a daunting/an impossible task
    • Getting hold of this information was no easy task (= was difficult).
    • a thankless task (= an unpleasant one that nobody wants to do and nobody thanks you for doing)
    • The first task for the new leader is to focus on the economy.
    • The new role involves a variety of specific tasks.
    • task of doing something Detectives are now faced with the task of identifying the body.
    • task of something The government now has to take on the task of reconstruction of the country.
    • We should stop chatting and get back to the task at hand.
    • You need to concentrate on the task in hand.
    • It was a challenge to adapt this novel for the screen, but the writer proved himself equal to the task.
    Synonyms tasktaskduties ▪ mission ▪ job ▪ choreThese are all words for a piece of work that somebody has to do.task a piece of work that somebody has to do, especially a difficult or unpleasant one:
    • Our first task will be to set up a communications system.
    duties tasks that are part of your job:
    • Your duties will include setting up a new computer system.
    mission an important official job that a person or group of people is given to do, especially when they are sent to another country:
    • They undertook a fact-finding mission in the region.
    job a piece of work that somebody has to do:
    • I’ve got various jobs around the house to do.
     task or job?A task may be more difficult than a job and require you to think carefully about how you are going to do it. A job may be something small that is one of several jobs that you have to do, especially in the home; or a job can be something that takes a long time and is boring and/​or needs a lot of patience.chore a task that you have to do regularly, especially one that you do in the home and find unpleasant or boring:
    • household chores
    Patterns
    • the task/​mission/​job/​chore of (doing) something
    • (a) daily/​day-to-day task/​duties/​job/​chore
    • (a) routine task/​duties/​mission/​job/​chore
    • (a/​an) easy/​difficult task/​mission/​job
    • (a) household/​domestic task/​duties/​job/​chore
    • to do a task/​a job/​the chores
    • to finish a task/​a mission/​a job/​the chores
    • to give somebody a task/​their duties/​a mission/​a job/​a chore
  2. an activity that is designed to help achieve a particular learning goal, especially in language teaching
    • Look at the diagram and then do the task below.
    • task-based learning
    3. Word OriginMiddle English: from an Old Northern French variant of Old French tasche, from medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxare ‘censure, charge’, perhaps from Greek tassein ‘fix’. An early sense of the verb was ‘impose a tax on’.
Idioms
take somebody to task (for/over something)
  1. to criticize somebody strongly for something they have done
    • The local newspaper has been taking the city council to task over its transport policy.
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