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Tassc - pronounced 'task'...
...from the New Shorter Oxford
English Dictionary:
task /tA:sk/
n.
me. [ONFr. tasque var. of OFr. tasche
(mod. tāche) f. med.L tasca alt. of taxa, f. taxare:
see tax v.]
1 A piece of
work imposed on or undertaken by a person; spec.
(a) (obs.
exc. Hist.)
a fixed quantity of labour to be performed by a person; (b)
the work allotted as a duty to
a specified person; (c) (now
arch. & Sc.)
a lesson to be learned or prepared; (d)
Psychol. a piece of work
or an exercise given to a subject in a psychological test or experiment
(cf. aufgabe).
me.
b gen. A
thing that has to be done, esp.
one involving labour or
difficulty. l16.
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