herculean task

collocation in English

meaningsoftask

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task
noun
uk
/tɑːsk/us
/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition oftaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofherculean task

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We have in front of us aherculeantask.
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I wish him well in hisherculeantask.
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It proved a very complex andherculeantask.
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No doubt it is a very difficult andherculeantask, but it must be faced now.
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I am merely suggesting that the director general has aherculeantaskconfronting him.
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It would be a measured and constructive gesture in theherculeantaskof providing more employment.
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It is aherculeantask.
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Probably the 12 member states could do so, but it would be aherculeantaskto get them together, quite apart from getting them to agree.
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I have aherculeantaskin trying to paint a picture of these tremendous industries in half an hour.
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It was aherculeantask.
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That is a tremendous, aherculeantask.
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If we learned one thing throughout this marathon orherculeantask, it was the strength of the feeling among the local community.
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For the manner in which they carried out theirherculeantask, all credit is due to the men behind the fighting troops.
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It will he aherculeantaskto hold such programmes in real terms and to keep them under control.
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Evidently, he had aherculeantaskin his hands.
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To take even this first step towards a happy society is aherculeantask.
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Huang succeeded in accomplishing hisherculeantaskbut his enemies had died during those four decades.
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Mastering symbolic math was aherculeantask; but numerical capabilities were critical to get a piece of the much larger engineering and lower-end scientific markets.
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