opgave — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abandonment noun The act of leaving someone or something behind completely, or the state of having been left that way.
- task noun A specific piece of work that needs to be done.
Senses
opgave is used for these senses in English:
- abandonment (legal) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author. [Early 19th century.]
- task A difficult or tedious undertaking.
abandonment — full definition
- noun The act of leaving someone or something behind completely, or the state of having been left that way.
- noun In law, the formal giving up of a right, claim, or piece of property.
task — full definition
- noun A specific piece of work that needs to be done.
- noun (computing) A unit of work or a running instance of a program that a computer executes.
- verb To assign someone a piece of work or responsibility.