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What does errand mean?

Definitions in simple English

errand Noun

— An errand is a short journey to buy or deliver something. She had a few errands to do before she met me for coffee.

errand

— noun a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

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Deceive

What words refer to acting in such a way that someone is led to believe something false?

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Simple sentences

She is out on an errand.

I'm not your errand boy.

Every day, while her two daughters were working indoors, the merchant's wife would send Vasilissa on one errand or other into the forest, either to find a branch of a certain rare bush or to bring her flowers or berries.

Tom is out on an errand.

He has sent the boy on an errand.

Tom is an errand boy.

I have an errand for Tom to run.

Tom went on an errand.

Tom is busy running an errand for his father.

Tom sent Mary on an errand.

I have an errand for Tom.

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He's on an errand.

You might need an errand running or maybe someone to hold her hand.

Send up a bellboy to go on an errand.

He doesn't treat me like an errand boy. He treats me like a woman.

Do you mean, an errand boy?

I'm still nothing but an errand boy at Matuschek and Company.

We have an opening for a new errand boy. Now see here.

He was on kind of an errand when he grazed into a police car, that dope.

That was the errand.

Just doing an errand.

I sent him to my sister's on an errand tonight.

I know thy errand.

Perhaps I may even lead a press gang such as I interrupted yesterday on its royal errand.

Apothecary Manzoni. on an errand of mercy with the Sister.

I-Is out on an errand, Excellency.

Yes, Zette. I've got an errand for you.

We have an opening for a new errand boy.

Do you, Sherry? Do you, Maggie? Why would he walk out of here, straight to a telephone booth and send me to South Carolina on a fool's errand?

Somebody think of an errand to send him on.

When I first got here I thought maybe you'd sent her on an errand or something.

He shouldn't have sent you on an errand like this.

Beat it, errand boy.

It's for an errand.

Finney, will you run an errand?

Don't you want me to run the errand, ma'am?

You got sense enough to run an errand?

He doesn't treat me like an errand boy either.

Any errand you want done, Dad?

Maybe he had an errand?

Yes, sir. - Could you run an errand for me?

Well, on this particular day, I'd left the room on an errand.

I would travel further and with pleasure on the errand that brings me here.

News and current affairs

The quest for global governance is a fool's errand.

That is why steering the economy by the dictates of market confidence is a fool's errand.

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