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🌶️ A spice blend 📝 A message 🏃 A short errand
recado

recado

9.9
A short job someone does for another person
  • noun
  • US
translation icon : mandado
  • She asked her brother to run a recado for her at the grocery store.

Examples

  • Before leaving for work, he completed a quick recado for his neighbor.

  • The assistant was always ready to handle any recado the manager needed.

  • Can you pick up that recado for me?

  • She has a recado to deliver to her neighbor.

  • She asked her brother to run a recado for her at the grocery store.

  • Before leaving for work, he completed a quick recado for his neighbor.

  • The assistant was always ready to handle any recado the manager needed.

Synonyms

task
vsrecado
∞ 1.0

A piece of work someone must do, often given by another person

is narrower referring to short duties someone is sent to do
errand
vsrecado
192 1.3

A short trip to do a small task, often for someone else

is the same idea but stresses being sent to perform the duty
fetch-and-carry task
vsrecado
  • Informal
6.6

A simple, boring job doing small errands and chores

is a short favour or routine duty without implying menial repetition
tasker
vsrecado
6.1

A piece of work someone is asked to finish

is used for short routine favours requested in person or informally

How Important

project
∞ 2.5
assignment
650 1.2
chore
195 1.0
recado
  • US
9.9
errand
192 1.3

Surface Forms

recado singular
recados plural

Etymology

Recado also means a short errand in Spanish, a small task someone is sent to do, because it was like a 'message' asking you to go and do something. So a recado is a quick favor or job you are asked to run.