Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who regularly imposes difficult or demanding tasks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who imposes a task or burdens with labor; one whose function it is to assign tasks to others; an overseer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
supervises workers , especially one whoimposes hard orburdensome work . - noun figuratively A
source ofhard work orresponsibility .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who imposes hard or continuous work
Etymologies
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Examples
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My appointment with RFK, well known as a taskmaster who kept long hours, had been scheduled for 8:00 p.m.
Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009
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My appointment with RFK, well known as a taskmaster who kept long hours, had been scheduled for 8:00 p.m.
Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009
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My appointment with RFK, well known as a taskmaster who kept long hours, had been scheduled for 8:00 p.m.
Bobby and Jackie C. David Heymann 2009
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The woman who could become America's next first lady is teasingly called the taskmaster by her friends, her task tonight, to sell themselves as an attractive first couple.
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Williams is known as a taskmaster, and the fact that he would allow his team to snarkily trash talk the Tarheels before heading to the Dean Dome after
unknown title 2009
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Williams is known as a taskmaster, and the fact that he would allow his team to snarkily trash talk the Tarheels before heading to the Dean Dome after
FanHouse 2009
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Sestak is known as a taskmaster with one of the worst staff turnover rates in DC
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Ruth Sheen was relieved to complete filming on 'taskmaster' Mike Leigh's latest film
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Ruth Sheen was relieved to complete filming on 'taskmaster' Mike Leigh's latest film
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Ruth Sheen was relieved to complete filming on 'taskmaster' Mike Leigh's latest film
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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