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If you are sent on an errand or run an errand for someone you are doing a small job for them that takes you away from the home or where you would normally be. [A short trip taken to perform a specified task, usually for another].
Delivering a message to your mothers friend down the road or going out to collect the groceries would be 'running an errand'.
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