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means A short trip made to carry out a specific small task, usually running something or fetching something for someone.

from From Old English 'ærende,' meaning a message or mission — the thing you were sent to say or do. It's a cousin of Old Norse words for messenger-business, part of a broad Germanic family of terms for being sent on a job. Over centuries the grand 'message from the king' sense shrank down to 'pick up milk and stamps' — the word kept its structure while the stakes quietly collapsed.