(literary or archaic) A mission or quest. / A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)

(transitive) To send someone on an errand. / (intransitive) To go on an errand.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of errand

plural of errand

present participle of errand

simple past tense and past participle of errand

(idiomatic) A foolish undertaking, especially one that is purposeless, fruitless, nonsensical, or certain to fail. / (idiomatic) Such an undertaking, assigned as a prank.

(idiomatic) Synonym of fool's errand

plural of lost errand

To invent a pretext for going somewhere.