Usually means: Activity requiring effort to complete.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. task: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. task: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. task: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. task: Collins English Dictionary
  5. task: Vocabulary.com
  6. Task, task: Wordnik
  7. task: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. task: Wiktionary
  9. task: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. task: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. task: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. task: Dictionary.com
  13. task: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. task: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Task (computers), Task (computing), Task (project management), Task (teaching style), Task, The Task (film), The Task (poem), The Task: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Task: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. task: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. task: Rhymezone
  19. task: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. task: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. task: Free Dictionary
  22. task: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. task: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. task: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. task: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. task: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. task: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TASK: Acronym Finder
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. task: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Task: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Gliding Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See tasked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
noun:  Any piece of work done.
noun:  A single action undertaken by a given agent.
noun:  A difficult or tedious undertaking.
noun:  An objective.
noun:  (computing) A process or execution of a program.
noun:  (obsolete) A tax or charge.
verb:  (transitive) To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
verb:  (transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
verb:  (transitive) To charge, as with a fault.
noun:  Alternative form of taisch [second sight; the involuntary ability of seeing the future or distant events.]

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