tasked
USTASKT/tæskt/TAHSKT/tɑːskt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of task.
Management tasked the new analyst with auditing last year's expenses.
Volunteers were tasked with distributing supplies to flood victims.
Note
A regular verb, so one -ed spelling serves as both past tense and participle: management tasked her, she has been tasked, she was tasked. Task always takes an object, so the passive comes easily, usually with with and an -ing form. Behind the everyday meaning lie two harsher ones: to be tasked could also mean to be weighed down with excessive burdens, or to be charged with a fault.
tasked is a form of task
task, verb: To assign a task to someone, or to impose one on them. Full entry
- Spelling
- task → tasked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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