mundane task

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mundane
adjective
uk
/mʌnˈdeɪn/us
/mʌnˈdeɪn/
very ordinary and therefore ...
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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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The mundane tasks associated with daily living enjoy an inexplicable and overriding priority in dementia care.
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Ford drew praise for his attention to themundanetaskof improving the efficiency and organization of executive departments, creating several super cabinets under which many departments were consolidated.
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This computing infrastructure is responsible for managing many of the mundane tasks of running everyday life: switching city lights on and off, regulating traffic, transporting goods and materials between locations.
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In order to avoid blame and penalties, enterprise managers typically employed labour on mundane tasks that could have been mechanized.
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We must look very carefully at the mundane tasks that need to be done.
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But they can back up the police and relieve them of more mundane tasks.
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However, those undertaking more mundane tasks or who are more vulnerable are open to it.
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The breakdown of those boundaries ensures that the nursing profession in particular is able to exercise its professional skills at higher levels rather than carrying out mundane tasks.
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There is no need for this kind of thing for what one might call the mundane tasks in industry.
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The symptoms can be debilitating, preventing concentration on mundane tasks.
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They are cheap and consumable and originally used for such mundane tasks as lighting bunsen burners.
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The need for extended travel between locations, in order to complete mundane tasks, was criticized.
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Society debutantes are chosen to handle sensitive transcription whereas the more mundane tasks are delegated to young women from working-class backgrounds.
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Pradeep wrote scripts to automate many of the mundane tasks.
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The most junior are given the most mundane tasks and only the senior "tsukebito" will accompany the "sekitori" when he goes out.
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This meant that they were large enough for sustained fast running with heavy passenger trains, yet small enough to allow them to undertake more mundane tasks such as freight haulage.
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They seem to lack energy to deal with mundane tasks and will consequently seek to concentrate on things that are mentally stimulating perhaps because of their underaroused state.
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These qualifications gave them more freedom than other urban and rural women who were restricted to daily mundane tasks.
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Using a telescope, he watches her every night performing mundane tasks, working on her artwork, and entertaining men.
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Because non-disabled people do not feel the impact of spending spoons, they may not realize that disabled people's considerations include mundane tasks such as bathing and getting dressed.
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