Brief
Brief noun - A short statement of the main points.
Task
Task noun - A piece of work that needs to be done regularly.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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The audience only sees a single fairly brief page in the task envelopes that the teams open at each box.
Source: Series / The Amazing Race -
In the brief time he was on the show he proved unable to carry out the simplest tasks on a computer, slept through a good deal of the task he was the project manager on, and even got mistaken for Donny Osmond.
Source: Series / The Apprentice - The policemen in the task force are also assigned; this is quietly dropped (with a brief resurgence when Matsuda finds himself in a room full of Kira conspirators), presumably because the main villain knows all their real names already, but deems them Not Worth Killing.
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