Definition of Task

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Definition of Task

Task

Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

Business; employment; undertaking; labor.

To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.

To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.

To charge; to tax; as with a fault.

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Task Quotations

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Vince Lombardi

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mohandas Gandhi

Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin

Task Translations

task in Afrikaans is taak
task in Danish is opgave
task in Dutch is karwei, klus, opgave, taak
task in German is Task, Aufgabe {f}, Aufgabe {f}, Schularbeit {f}
task in Italian is lavoro, occupare, quesito
task in Latin is negotium
task in Portuguese is tarefa

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