Task

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·v Business; employment; undertaking; labor.

II. Task ·v Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

III. Task ·vt To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to Tax.

IV. Task ·vt To Charge; to Tax; as with a fault.

V. Task ·vt To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.