Antonyms for errand
ˈɛr ənder·rand

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1. errand

   Antonyms:
   misdelivery, misannouncement

   Synonyms:
   message, commission, mission, delegation, charge

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Princeton's WordNet

1. errandnoun

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

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1. errandnoun

   Synonyms:
   mission, commission

How to use errand in a sentence?

1. John Boehner:

   The Bible says beware of false prophets. And there are people out there, you know, spreading noise about how much can get done. I mean this whole notion that we're going to shut down the government to get rid of Obamacare in 2013 -- this plan never had a chance, but over the course of the August recess in 2013 and in September, a lot of my Republican colleagues who knew this was a fool's errand -- really, they were getting all this pressure from home to do this.

2. Henry James:

   True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

3. Heather Conley:

   Getting Russia to adjust its economic model, in my view, is a fool's errand.

4. Joe Biden:

   The answer is that I'm running the traps on this. I don't want to make this a fool's errand, i'm a lot closer than I was before Christmas, and we'll make the decision soon.

5. Kellyanne Conway:

   Nobody's going to have a silver bullet, a magic elixir on stage at the CNN debate that dislodges Trump from the top of the polls. That's a fool's errand, it's incumbent upon these candidates to show contrast from other people's point of views, including Mr. Trump's.

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