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Tasking vs Taking - What's the difference?

tasking | taking |

As verbs the difference between tasking and taking

is that tasking is present participle of lang=en while taking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between tasking and taking

is that tasking is {{cx|military|lang=en}} A task; an assigned item of work while taking is the act by which something is taken.

As an adjective taking is

alluring; attractive.

tasking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A task; an assigned item of work.
  • * 2007 , Perry M. Smith, Daniel M. Gerstein, Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy
  • Action officers receive taskings in many ways. A top boss will grab you in the hall and tell you to do something, some key official will give you multiple taskings right in the middle of your briefing, and you will pick up taskings in staff meetings

    Anagrams

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    taking

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • alluring; attractive.
  • * Fuller
  • subtile in making his temptations most taking
  • (obsolete) infectious; contagious
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Noun

  • The act by which something is taken.
  • * 2010 , Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements (page 75)
  • Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.
  • (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
  • (uncountable) An apprehension.
  • (countable) That which has been gained.
  • Count the shop's takings .

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
  • Derived terms

    * for the taking

    See also

    * takings

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