1. assign a piece of work to: "NATO troops are tasked with separating the warring parties"
▪ make great demands on (someone's resources or abilities):"it tasked his diplomatic skill to effect his departure in safety"
Word OriginMiddle English: from an Old Northern French variant of Old French tasche, from medieval Latin tasca, alteration of taxa, from Latin taxare ‘censure, charge’ (see tax). An early sense of the verb was ‘impose a tax on’.
