Meanings (ES + gloss)
faena • quehacer • tanda • tarea • tonga
A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
daily task
monotonous task
incumbencia
A difficult or tedious undertaking.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks…
cometido • encargo
An objective.
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Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
atarear • encargar • encomendar
To assign a task to, or impose a task on.
All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come / To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, / To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride / On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding…
On my first day in the office, I was tasked with sorting a pile of invoices.
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