Pursuit and Task

Pursuit

Pursuit noun - The act of going after or in the tracks of another.

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

Nearby Words: pursue, pursuer

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

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

Nearby Words: tasked, taskwork, tasking

long	long pursuit	long task
original	original pursuit	original task
single	single pursuit	single task
actual	actual pursuit	actual task
Other adjectives: serious, hopeless, futile, new, final.

In pursuit of a lazier way to do a task, a character will wind up spending magnitudes more time and effort developing and executing that lazier way than it would have taken to do it the normal way.

Source: Laborious Laziness

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