She made her brother run some little errands for her.
My boss kept sending me out on errands.
She's gone on an errand for her mother.
• Agenda item
• Assignment of a sort
• Assistant's assignment
• Bellhop's task
• Boy's chore
• Brief trip
• Business trip?
• Buying a quart of milk, e.g.
• Chore
• Chore for Junior
• Chore of sorts
• Chore-related outing
• Commission
• Daily task
• Delivery job
• Dropping off the dry cleaning, e.g.
• Gofer task
• Gofer work
• Gofer's assignment
• Gofer's chore
• Gofer's job
• Going to the bank, e.g.
• Going to the store, perhaps
• Grocery trip, say
• It may be run
• It might be sleeveless
• It's often run
• It's run
• It's something to do
• Item on a list
• Item on a to-do list
• Job for a gofer
• Job to be run
• Mailing a letter or picking up a quart of milk, e.g.
• Market run, perhaps
• Mini-mission
• Minor chore
• Minor mission
• Minor task
• Mission
• On which a gofer goes
• Picking up a prescription, say
• Picking up the dry cleaning, e.g.
• Purposeful excursion
• Quick business trip?
• Quick trip
• Quick trip that's run
• Short necessary trip
• Short shopping trip, e.g.
• Short task
• Short trip
• Short trip for a special purpose
• Small chore
• Small job
• Small task
• Something done while running around
• Something to run
• Task
• Task done outside the house
• Task that's run
• Thing to do
• Thing to run
• To-do list entry
• To-do list entry, perhaps
• To-do list task
• Trip to the bank, e.g.
• Trip to the bank, say
• Trip to the market, e.g.
• Trip to the store
• Trip to the store, say
• Trip with a purpose
• What to do
• What a gofer is sent on
• A short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission
to go on an errand пое́хать, пойти́ по поруче́нию
;to run (on) errands быть на посы́лках
fool's errand бесполе́зное де́ло; беспло́дная зате́я
;to send smb. on fool's errand дать кому́-л. бессмы́сленное поруче́ние
to go on an errand - пойти /поехать/ по поручению
to send on an errand - послать с поручением /с миссией/
to run errands - быть на посылках /на побегушках/
поручение, задание
to go on an ~ - пойти /поехать/ по поручению
to send on an ~ - послать с поручением /с миссией/
to run ~s - быть на посылках /на побегушках/
Англо-русский строительный словарь. — М.: Русский Язык.С.Н.Корчемкина, С.К.Кашкина, С.В.Курбатова.1995.