Errand /(?)/

Er·rand

Errand

n.
  1. A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.
    I have a secret errand to thee, O king.
    — Judg. iii. 19.
    I will not eat till I have told mine errand.
    — Gen. xxiv. 33.
  2. Any specific task, usually of a routine nature, requiring some form of travel, usually locally. An errand is often on behalf of someone else, but sometimes for one's own purposes.
  3. A mission.

Phrases & Compounds

To run an errand
To perform an errand{2}.