Collocations for "task"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "task" in context.
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task
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [tough, hard, simple, straightforward, boring, shared, common] task
- the [main, principal] task (is)
- [daily, weekly, monthly] tasks
- [office, team, work, job] tasks
- tasks concerning [logistics, accounting, marketing]
- [this, it] is a task for [three]
- a task for [three] [people, workers, designers]
- [set, give out, delegate, assign] tasks
- has the task of [finding, completing, recruiting, negotiating]
- it was a task [finishing, making, doing]
- it was a task to [finish]
- well that was quite a task!
- wasn't (quite) up to the task
- the necessary [experience, skills, knowledge, know-how] for the task
- the [experience] necessary for the task
- UK: the [boss, teacher] took them to task (for not working)
- [set up, send in] a task force
- a task [force, manager, system]
- task management [software, app]
- tasked her with [providing, fighting, discovering, creating, making]
- [are, were] tasked with [providing]
- [specifically, currently] tasked with
- tasked to [provide]
- tasked their [ability, resources, skills] to
'task' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
accomplished
- ambitious
- appropriate
- attitude
- bridge
- capability
- chalk
- challenging
- competent
- complete
- concentrate
- confront
- confuse
- courage
- creative
- cumbersome
- daunting
- deadline
- dedicate
- deliberate
- demand
- demanding
- demonstrate
- difficult
- discipline
- divide
- do
- done
- duck
- enormous
- entrust
- equal
- extremely
- fitness
- formation
- hard
- hopeless
- huge
- impossible
- incident
- irrelevant
- joint
- leisure
- lighter
- management
- master
- ongoing
- order
- overdue
- overwhelming