errand
noun/ˈerənd/
/ˈerənd/
- a job that you do for somebody that involves going somewhere to take a message, to buy something, deliver goods, etc.
- He often runs errands for his grandmother.
- Her boss sent her on an errand into town.
Extra Examples- She made her brother run some little errands for her.
- She's gone on an errand for her mother.
- He always seemed to have a lot of errands to do.
- It was a perfectly simple errand—what went wrong?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- little
- small
- simple
- …
- do
- go on
- run
- …
- on an errand
Word OriginOld English ǣrende ‘message, mission’, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German ārunti, and obscurely to Swedish ärende and Danish ærinde.
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