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Antonyms for tasks

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : task, tahsk
Phonetic Transcription : tæsk, tɑsk


Definition of tasks

Origin :
  • c.1300, "piece of work imposed as a duty," from Old North French tasque (13c., Old French tasche, Modern French tâche) "duty, tax," from Vulgar Latin *tasca "a duty, assessment," metathesis of Medieval Latin taxa, a back-formation of Latin taxare "to evaluate, estimate, assess" (see tax). General sense of "any piece of work that has to be done" is first recorded 1590s. Phrase take one to task (1680s) preserves the sense that is closer to tax.
  • German tasche "pocket" is from the same Vulgar Latin source (via Old High German tasca), with presumable sense evolution from "amount of work imposed by some authority," to "payment for that work," to "wages," to "pocket into which money is put," to "any pocket."
  • noun job or chore, often assigned
  • verb assign, burden
Example sentences :
  • A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • The tasks we face are difficult, and we can accomplish them only if we work together.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • No one spoke; the three workers kept at their tasks as if no other person had been in the room with them.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • One after another the men came to report the completion of their tasks.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • There he plied his tasks so diligently that he excelled all in book-learning.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • I have therefore had to create for myself some tasks which will hold me to my chains.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • How these expeditions accomplished their tasks shall be told later.
  • Extract from : « Freeland » by Theodor Hertzka
  • The overseers were brutal when the slaves did not do the tasks set for them.
  • Extract from : « Introductory American History » by Henry Eldridge Bourne
  • These, also, make easier and bolder the electrician's tasks.
  • Extract from : « Little Masterpieces of Science: » by Various
  • The daily tasks and pleasures were picked up where they had been dropped.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various

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