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errand
[ er-uhnd ]
noun
- a short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose, as to buy something, deliver a package, or convey a message, often for someone else.
Synonyms: chore, assignment, task, mission
- the purpose of such a trip:
He finished his errands.
Synonyms: chore, assignment, task, mission
- a special mission or function entrusted to a messenger; commission.
errand
/ ˈɛrənd /
noun
- a short trip undertaken to perform a necessary task or commission (esp in the phrase run errands )
- the purpose or object of such a trip
Word History and Origins
Origin of errand1
Word History and Origins
Origin of errand1
Idioms and Phrases
see fool's errand ; run an errand .Example Sentences
If you’ve just arrived home after a walk, a work shift, or running errands, wash your hands with soap and water before you touch your mask.
Other than running errands, they rarely left the house and never ate inside a restaurant during the pandemic.
They last for 30 to 40 minutes, so they’re the perfect companion for a brisk morning walk or a quick errand.
Then there’s this added thing of, when I do have energy, I can’t go out and run my errands.
Once Alvarez returns from that errand, her mother often has to head out herself, so the 17-year-old settles down to take care of the children for the rest of the afternoon.
He demonstrated that he had the makings of a future Marine after his mother sent him on a last minute errand to a nearby deli.
In the Bible angels are mostly errand boys, the word itself means "messenger."
At the start of the game he is been sent to the fantastic city of Columbia on an errand: to find a girl and have his debt cleaned.
It's a fool's errand when the general electorate is trending in favor of more government.
It is, increasingly, the received wisdom in the West that nation building is a fool's errand.
The remarkable thing was that all the hurrying people she met seemed also each of them to be on a secret and mystic errand.
A simple errand and promenade,--and yet she felt herself to be steeped in the romance of an adventure!
One evening, rather more than a week after the marriage, Hedges had been on an errand to Calne, and was hastening home.
A few words explained his errand; but the brave Englishman would hardly hear it to the end.
Except for their sad errand, both Felipe and Aunt Ri would have experienced a keen delight in this ascent.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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