Errand

n.	1.	A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere. I have a secret errand to thee, O king. - Judg. iii. 19. I will not eat till I have told mine errand. - Gen. xxiv. 33.
	2.	Any specific task, usually of a routine nature, requiring some form of travel, usually locally. An errand is often on behalf of someone else, but sometimes for one's own purposes.
	3.	A mission. To run an errand To perform an errand{2}.

Noun

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errand - a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission

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