set task

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Use a timer to set task deadline alarms.

From Inc • Mar. 8, 2013

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

After several seasons spent in doing the same process thousands of times, her desire for new work becomes deadened, and she is afraid to attempt anything different from her one set task.

From The Making of a Trade School by Woolman, Mary Schenck

The very first thing he did when he came home again was to make her repeat the set task from beginning to end.

From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór

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