Meanings of set tasks in English

Triple-check that everyone on the planning committee has clear, set tasks to complete.

Meanwhile, pupils have been set tasks to complete at home.

Dan set tasks for her for a week, until she wearied of the pretense.

Like school, the workplace is generally a controlled environment, governed by the clock, rules and set tasks.

It cannot be made a thing of set hours, and of measurably set tasks, as office-work maybe.

To-morrow may never come, and should it come, may not changed conditions and difficulties render set tasks impossible?

I stood over him until he was well at work, then turned back to set tasks for the other men.

When his speech grew clearer he was set tasks of learning many-syllabled words and also began to practise drawing patterns.

It pits contestants against each other in set tasks as they struggle to survive among the crocodiles and man-eating spiders of the native bush.

He set tasks to his divine faculty, which is much the same as trying to make Jove's eagle do the service of a clucking hen.

Set tasks, dull routine, monotonous duty I ever hated.