Synonym: assignment, chore, duty, exercise, job, task. Similar words: errant, aberrant, fool's errand, subterranean, mediterranean, terra, erratic, terrain. Meaning: ['erənd] 
n. a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission.
n. a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission. 
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(1) She went off on some errand.
(2) My mother asked me to go on an errand - she wanted me to buy some food.
(3) I couldn't stop because I was on an errand.
(4) She's gone on an errand for her mother.
(5) Her boss sent her on an errand into town.
(6) I've come on a special errand.
(7) He sent me on a fool's errand .
(8) The boy quickly went on an errand with money clasped in his hands.
(9) It's a fool's errand trying to get Lena to join in anything.
(10) He quickly set out on his errand of mercy .
(11) Rachel has sent me on this impossible errand.
(12) Their onerous errand completed(http://sentencedict.com), the men resumed their jobs.
(13) An errand boy must have his fling, you know.
(14) My superior self was on a quixotic errand!
(15) She sent Jimmy off on an errand as soon as she got in, then sat down and wrote out her notice.
(16) Predictably, this fool's errand finds her up to her neck in a morass of inconclusive forensics.
(17) She had come on an errand and was greeted by a mad woman, an amazon.
(18) William did not go West on an existential errand; the end of his journey was known.
(19) Going in there on an errand during the middle of the morning, it was not always immediately possible to find him.
(20) Another errand to run after work before I came over to make Richard dinner.
(21) He often got me out of bed, late on an evening, to run an errand.
(22) They are not a packet of sweets to be labelled with certain addresses and delivered by the errand boy.
(23) Rain did not think this necessary but dispatched Rosie on the errand.
(24) I notice you have been fighting, so maybe your errand was not so slight.
(25) Moira Anderson vanished without trace in a snow storm while running an errand for her grandmother on 23 February 1957.
(26) But it seemed polite to visit the Freitas family, especially after Lina had come to Monte Samana on a fruitless errand.
(27) Before you disappear, I want you to do an errand for me.
(28) The weaver shook his head but the messenger dared not leave his door till his master's errand had been fulfilled.
(29) A feeling of great peace descended upon the rector despite the preoccupations of the errand in hand.
(30) After a decent interval the roommate should disappear on an errand or into his room for an extended period. 12.
More similar words: errant, aberrant, fool's errand, subterranean, mediterranean, terra, erratic, terrain, erratum, terrarium, erratically, aberration, terra firma, terraced house, arrange, currant, warrant, warranty, warranted, rearrange, disarrange, prearranged, arrangement, blackcurrant, search warrant, transferred, transferring, arrest warrant, francisco franco, array.