multitasking
task
verb[ T,usually passive ]
 formaluk /tɑːsk/ us /tæsk/
to give someone a difficult job to do:
task sb with (doing) sthThe parent company is being tasked with turning around two new acquisitions.
task sb to do sthThe company completed only a small fraction of the 150 health clinics it was tasked to build.

Examples of task

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To introduce the tasks, the following information was provided on the cover page of the booklets.
Across both tasks, children were given two naming trials each.
Table 2 gives the average performance of the foreign learners in both word categorization tasks.
The speech discrimination test was given after the glide tasks in a separate session.
Finally, for segmentation and blending tasks, the different reading groups were not differentially affected by syllable structure.
Memory was included in the model because the four tasks all involved memory learning.
Given these varied findings, in the present study we sought to measure general phonological processing using tasks of speeded naming, nonword repetition, and phonological awareness.
Developing appropriate tasks for children in their preschool years is difficult for two reasons.
I tasked myself not to make fewer than ten a day; in the end one day had been omitted.
In these contexts, equitable marital relations are perceived as those in which the wife performs most of the household tasks.
If a befriender feels that they are actually friends with the client, they may undertake caring tasks which are beyond the scheme's guidelines.
A final source of the conflicting results may lie in the left - right and yes - no decision tasks.
The tasks were presented live by the first author.
Studies that observe 2-year-olds in verb fast-mapping tasks would be useful in choosing between these accounts.
Team leaders used confidence data to prioritize tasks in light of changing requirements.
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Collocations withtask

task

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academic task
As such, knowledge of academic language is intertwined with both the concepts taught in school and the cognitive processes required to carry out academic tasks.
administrative task
There was a presumption that the government's administrativetask was to balance the interests of the competing groups; the outcomes were not its concern.
arduous task
Generalizing the accumulated knowledge of this rural past becomes an arduoustask, therefore.
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