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Meantolearn Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

asthma task force

An organization is called 'Asthma Task Force'.

1. What does 'task' mean here?

2. What does 'force' mean? Is it a common usage?

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task force: A temporary grouping of individuals and resources for the accomplishment of a specific objective: a presidential task force to fight drug trafficking. com)

  • task force: A temporary grouping of individuals and resources for the accomplishment of a specific objective: a presidential task force to fight drug trafficking.
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task force:

A temporary grouping of individuals and resources for the accomplishment of a specific objective: a presidential task force to fight drug trafficking. (source: answers.com)
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Hi Julie,

force - a group of people who have been trained and organized to do a particular job: (from Longman)

task = job (from Longman)

task force - a group formed for a short time to deal with a particular problem

The interesting thing is the definiton of 'force' is quite different from its other useage, such as gravitational force or Newton's Law: F (force)

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