W: (v) project [Related to: project] (make or work out a plan for; devise) "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
W: (v) task [Related to: task] (assign a task to) "I tasked him with looking after the children"
W: (v) labor [Related to: labor] (work hard) "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
W: (v) labor [Related to: labor] (strive and make an effort to reach a goal) "She tugged for years to make a decent living"; "We have to push a little to make the deadline!"; "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
S: (n) job, task, chore (a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee) "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores"
Verb
S: (v) task (assign a task to) "I tasked him with looking after the children"