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

He had always lived in easy circumstances, doing as he liked, enjoying society, and amusing himself, and it was hard for him to devote his attention strictly to any set task.

From Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans by Cody, Sherwin

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

The other performs his set task, but at the same time he is examining into the principles of his engine, or into the conduct of the factory or business.

From The Warriors by Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown