errand
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Old English ǣrende
[edit] Pronunciation
- enPR: ěr'ənd
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[edit] Noun
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errand (plural errands)
- A trip to accomplish a small mission or to do some business (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
- The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.
- The purpose of such trip.
- I'm going to town on some errands.
- An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
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[edit] Translations
trip to accomplish a small task
purpose of a small trip
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[edit] Verb
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to errand (third-person singular simple present errands, present participle erranding, simple past and past participle erranded)
- (transitive) To send someone on an errand.
- All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
- (intransitive) To go on an errand.
- She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.
