errand

CEFRC1

/ˈɛɹənd/

noun

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A journey undertaken to accomplish some task.
A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
A mission or quest.

In context

All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
I'm going to town on some errands.
The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors.

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What will ye, said King Arthur, and what is your errand?
1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum XXIII”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einr...
Few have ever come hither through greater peril or on an errand more urgent. In this evil hour I have come on an errand over many dangerous leagues to Elrond: a hundred and ten days I have journeyed all alone.
1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
I had not taught thee then the alphabet Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set And bound up, might with speechless secrecy Deliver errands mutely and mutually.
1633, John Donne, Elegy VII

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From Middle English erande, erende, from Old English ǣrende, from Proto-West Germanic *ārundī (“message, errand”).