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tasking

tasking is the present participle and gerund of task.

Meaning of task

Verb

task (third-person singular simple present tasks, present participle tasking, simple past and past participle tasked)

  1. (transitive) To assign a task to; to impose a task on.
    • On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
  2. (transitive) To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax
    • He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    1. (obsolete, transitive) To institute a tax on.
  3. (transitive) To charge, as with a fault.
    • Too impudent to task me with those errors.c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii

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Noun

tasking (plural taskings)

  1. A task; an assigned item of work.
    • Action officers receive taskings in many ways. A top boss will grab you in the hall and tell you to do something, some key official will give you multiple taskings right in the middle of your briefing, and you will pick up taskings in staff meetings […]2007, Perry M. Smith, Daniel M. Gerstein, Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy

Forms of tasking

pluraltaskings

Words formed from tasking

Questions about tasking

What does tasking mean?
Tasking means a task; an assigned item of work.
What is tasking the present participle and gerund of?
Tasking is the present participle and gerund of task.
What part of speech is tasking?
Tasking is a noun.
What is the plural of tasking?
The plural of tasking is taskings.

Words near tasking in the dictionary

  1. tasker
  2. taskers
  3. Taskes
  4. taskforce
  5. taskforces
  6. tasking
  7. taskings
  8. taskless
  9. tasklessness
  10. tasklet
  11. tasklets

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