# tasking

Pronunciation: US say "TASK-ing" /ˈtæskɪŋ/; UK say "TAHSK-ing" /ˈtɑːskɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of task. — present participle and gerund of task
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of task. Use this -ing form when you give someone a job to do.
   - _The manager is tasking her team with the year-end audit._
   - _Tasking volunteers with the cleanup took most of the morning._

## Noun

2. An assigned item of work; a job handed to a person or group to carry out.
   - Simple: A job or piece of work that someone is given to do.
   - _The commander issued a fresh tasking to the reconnaissance team._
   - _Several taskings arrived overnight from headquarters._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/tasking (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).