"call to task" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "calls to task",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calling to task",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "called to task",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "called to task",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "call to task (third-person singular simple present calls to task, present participle calling to task, simple past and past participle called to task)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "take to task"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Shera Aranoff Tuchman, Sandra E. Rapoport, Moses' Women, →ISBN, page 25:",
          "text": "They have transgressed the king's explicit orders, and fear that now they will be called to task, certainly censured, perhaps thrown into prison or even executed for their disobedience.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of take to task"
      ],
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    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Allan Formicola, Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero, Mobilizing the Community for Better Health, →ISBN, page 261:",
          "text": "Bold, swift action is required to call to task a variety of stakeholders—from academia to service providers, from professionals to lay health workers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Focus attention on and motivate to do the work at hand."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "call to task"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "calls to task",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "calling to task",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "called to task",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "called to task",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "call to task (third-person singular simple present calls to task, present participle calling to task, simple past and past participle called to task)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "take to task"
        }
      ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Shera Aranoff Tuchman, Sandra E. Rapoport, Moses' Women, →ISBN, page 25:",
          "text": "They have transgressed the king's explicit orders, and fear that now they will be called to task, certainly censured, perhaps thrown into prison or even executed for their disobedience.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of take to task"
      ],
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          "ref": "2010, Allan Formicola, Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero, Mobilizing the Community for Better Health, →ISBN, page 261:",
          "text": "Bold, swift action is required to call to task a variety of stakeholders—from academia to service providers, from professionals to lay health workers.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Focus attention on and motivate to do the work at hand."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "call to task"
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