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Someone who imposes hard or continuous work
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taskmaster
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who imposes hard or continuous work
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taskmaster \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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"overseer, one who imposes a task," 1520s, from task (n.) + master (n.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES a hard taskmaster/master ▪ He was a hard master and a dangerous enemy. ▪ She was a hard taskmaster but a considerably fairer one than la Belle Ethel. ▪ The summer is a hard master. ▪ True to his word, he schooled her in horsemanship ...
Usage examples of taskmaster.
With this new mouthpiece and earpiece among her taskmasters, Phage would know everything.
A strict taskmaster, he would make certain the slaves behaved for her, so Norma could accomplish her goals on time.
Brought to the country centuries ago, as brutal savages from Africa, they had learned nothing of Christian civilization, except that it meant endless toil, in malarious swamps, under the lash of the taskmaster.
Father never made it easier on me than it was for the other horseboys, but he was a good and just taskmaster.
At that time the bachelors numbered but thirteen, yet they exercised over the rest of the sixty-four squires and pages a rule of iron, and were taskmasters, hard, exacting, and oftentimes cruel.
She watched slaves and taskmasters march in gangs from the tent city to the work site.
The taskmasters would not fear to talk with her, and Zagorka would not fear to talk with Phage.
Hisses and boos greeted the taskmasters, but they only whirled their whips more viciously.
It was a perfect moment: blue sky above, red sands below, taskmasters behind, and slaves before.
As it is extremely onerous, and is soon going to be impossible, for me to keep up the wide range of correspondence which has become a large part of my occupation, and tends to absorb all the vital force which is left me, I wish to enter into a final explanation with the well-meaning but merciless taskmasters who have now for many years been levying their daily tax upon me.
Taskmasters watched them all, their whips of black magic driving the whole machine forward.
And another time when a pondering gale had kept him on the bridge for forty-eight consecutive hours, and a deputation of the deck hands raided him in the chart-house on the supposition that exhaustion would have laid him out in a dead sleep, he woke before their fingers touched him, broke the jaw of one with a camp-stool, and so maltreated the others with the same weapon, that they were glad enough to run away even with the exasperating knowledge that they left their taskmaster undamaged behind them.
This single-minded, almost obsessive drive to deliver the goods to the troops in forward areas, whether in war or in peace, made him very popular with Army and Marine commanders and a demanding taskmaster.
However, a taskmaster far more interesting, for Sharra talked about the properties and virtues of the roots for which they dug, the leaves for which they climbed only the healthiest of trees, well-sheltered from the worst rav ages of Threadfall, or equally elusive herbs that lived ob scurely where other bushes had thorns to scratch.
The Matriarchy, buying peace at the price of dishonor, stamping out initiative, prisoning all who dare oppose its unprogressing rule, has made men slaves and women their soulless taskmasters.