Betekenis van task In het Nederlands

• 0 a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or with difficulty:

  • We usually ask interviewees to perform a few simple tasks on the computer just to test their aptitude.

  • The government now faces the daunting task of restructuring the entire health service.

• 1 to criticize or speak angrily to someone for something that they have done wrong:

  • She took her assistant to task for/over her carelessness.

• 2 to give someone a task:

  • We have been tasked with setting up camps for refugees.

• 3 a piece of work to be done, esp. one done regularly, unwillingly, or with difficulty:

  • Our first task after we moved was to find a doctor.

  • Making these pastries is no easy task.

  • They face the daunting task of rebuilding their economy.

• 4 a piece of work that needs to be done, especially one that is a regular part of someone's job:

  • The new team's first task will be to ensure a smooth handover of power.

  • carry out/complete/do a task Those in charge of planning the relocation will need to decide what tasks need to be carried out.

  • assign/give/set sb a task A small team at head office has been assigned the task of setting up a central database.

  • perform/undertake a task

  • a big/important/major task

  • a crucial/key/main task

  • time-consuming/urgent tasks

  • easy/menial/simple tasks

  • administrative/creative/sales tasks

• 5 a difficult thing that must be done:

  • a challenging/daunting task The government faces the daunting task of restructuring the pension system.

  • a difficult/hard/impossible task With the cost-cutting complete, the bank is faced with the more difficult task of generating increased revenues to convert into profit.

• 6 an action done by a computer such as starting a program, checking email, saving files, etc.:

  • By automating repetitive tasks, software programs can save people a lot of time.

  • do/execute/perform a task A mainframe's speed is measured in the number of tasks it can perform in a millisecond.

• 7 to criticize a person, group of people, or an organization for doing something that you think is very wrong:

  • Farmers took the large supermarket chains to task over their ruthless pricing.

• 8 to give someone a difficult job to do:

  • task sb with (doing) sth The parent company is being tasked with turning around two new acquisitions.

  • task sb to do sth The company completed only a small fraction of the 150 health clinics it was tasked to build.