set task

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Use a timer to set task deadline alarms.

From Inc • Mar. 8, 2013

At one stage it may mean the satisfaction of accomplishing a set task, whether selected by himself or imposed by some one else.

From Your Child: Today and Tomorrow by Gruenberg, Sidonie Matzner

At this set task in letter-writing, the cow-puncher had greatly excelled the schoolmarm!

From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen

Its maker was no youthful pupil, stumbling at his set task.

From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert

When a man has finished a set task, it is time to eat and drink.

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson