ERRAND definition: a short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose, as to buy something, deliver a package, or convey a message, often for someone else. See examples of errand used in a sentence.
An errand is a task of no great consequence, typically concerning household or business affairs, which requires the person undertaking it to travel to a place where it can be accomplished.
a job that you do for somebody that involves going somewhere to take a message, to buy something, deliver goods, etc. He often runs errands for his grandmother. Her boss sent her on an errand into town. Definition of errand noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
er•rand (er′ ənd), n. a short and quick trip to accomplish a specific purpose, as to buy something, deliver a package, or convey a message, often for someone else. the purpose of such a trip: He finished his errands. a special mission or function entrusted to a messenger; commission.
errand (third-person singular simple present errands, present participle erranding, simple past and past participle erranded) (transitive) To send someone on an errand.
We were there on an errand of mercy to help provide medical care for the refugees. I have to run some errands for my mom this afternoon. She had a bunch of errands to do before dinner. A fool's errand is an errand that does not need to be done or that cannot be done successfully.
