The phrase "entrust the task" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean assigning a task to someone you trust, such as a family member, friend, coworker, or colleague. For example, "I entrusted the task of answering customer inquiries to my assistant."
We all want to save the rainforests, even if we might not entrust the task to an offshoot of the Rupert Murdoch empire.
Tightened border controls, especially since Sept. 11, have made it more difficult and expensive for those in the United States illegally to return home to retrieve their children, forcing them to entrust the task to strangers, officials said.
Pakistan has handed him over to America, but where and by whom he is to be interrogated is unclear: America may choose to entrust the task to friendly regimes with fewer qualms about torture.
Ryan Giggs is coming towards the end of his Old Trafford playing career but it would be a gamble of epic proportions to entrust the task of succeeding Ferguson to a managerial novice.
It would have been better for the Arab League to entrust the task of creating this monitoring mission to the UN, a body that has more experience in this field.
Fadele has entrusted the task of increasing the number of Redeemed churches to Daniel Ajayi-ADanieln.
He entrusted the task of choosing an appropriate architectural institution for his library to his friend the architect Ignacio Díaz Morales.
It did so, in part, by entrusting the task to Mr. Sherman, who said he was "not the kind of guy you want running into a burning building".
She sang powerfully and credibly, though at times she openly entrusted the task to her background singers, or (less infrequently) the safety net of a recorded track.
Prohibitions against human dissection were slowly lifting, and Mondino performed his own dissections rather than following the customary procedure of entrusting the task to a menial.
In large part, it entrusts the task of devising cost-saving health-care innovation to communities like Boise and Boston and Buffalo, rather than to the drug and device companies and the public and private insurers that have failed to do so.
