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Meaning of TASKMASTER

Pronunciation:  'task`mastur

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  someone who imposes hard or continuous work
 
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 See Also: slave driver, supervisor, taskmistress

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Task"mas`ter\, n.
One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one
whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. --Ex. i. 11.
      All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my
      great Taskmaster's eye.                  --Milton.
 

 

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