Definition of: task

(task, täsk) noun
1. A specific amount of labor or study imposed by authority or required by duty or necessity.
2. Any work voluntarily undertaken and imposed on oneself.
3. An exhausting or vexatious employment; burden.
4. A specific military mission.
5. Obs. A tax; duty.
—to take to task To reprove; lecture.
—v.t.
1. To assign a task to.
2. To overtax with labor; burden.
3. To censure; reprimand.
4. Obs. To tax. [<AF tasque <LL tasca, taxa <L taxare appraise. Related to TAX.] Synonyms (noun): business, drudgery, job, labor, lesson, stint, toil, work. See TOIL¹.