encargo

encargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of encargar

• Hyphenation: en‧car‧go

From encarregar + -o.

encargo m (plural encargos)

1. responsibility (duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable)
2. a fee or tax
3. post (appointed position)

encargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of encargar

• “encargo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “encargo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /enˈkaɾɡo/ [ẽŋˈkaɾ.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -aɾɡo
• Syllabification: en‧car‧go

Deverbal from encargar.

encargo m (plural encargos)

1. order (a product that is ordered)

   Synonym: pedido

2. errand, task
3. commission, assignment, job (an order at work from one's boss)
   • 2019 February 17, Francisco Martínez Hoyos, “10 idiomas que se crearon de la nada”, in La Vanguardia‎^[1]:

     El na’vi fue creación del profesor de Lingüística Paul Frommer por encargo de James Cameron, director de la película.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

encargo

1. first-person singular present indicative of encargar

• “encargo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025