Capacity and Task

Capacity

Capacity noun - An assignment at which one regularly works for pay.
Usage example: served in the capacity of the network's White House correspondent for a year

Task and capacity are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Task" instead a noun "Capacity".

Task

Task noun - The action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists.
Usage example: the forklift's task is to stack pallets of goods in the warehouse

Capacity and task are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Capacity" instead a noun "Task".

Nearby Words: tasked, taskwork, tasking

How words are described

physical physical capacity physical task
similar similar capacity similar task
small small capacity small task
actual actual capacity actual task
Other adjectives: large, great, serious, huge, new, minor, additional, significant, different, magical.

Both words in one sentence

  • Truth in Television: This has happened a few times in the UK version of The Apprentice when teams have been given the task of creating and selling a product, and sold way beyond their production capacity.
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