The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tasker \Task"er\, n.
One who imposes a task.
One who performs a task, as a day-laborer. [R.]
A laborer who receives his wages in kind. [Scot.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who imposes a task. 2 One who performs a task, as a day-labourer. 3 (context Scotland historical English) A labourer who receives wages in kind.
Wikipedia
Tasker is a surname and occasionally a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Tasker is an application for Android which performs tasks based on contexts ( application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined profiles, clickable or timer home screen widgets. It controls an Android device without the need for root or a special home screen.
Usage examples of "tasker".
Luke had put his fist through the previous hat, I almost giggled at those last words, but I doubted that Harry Tasker even heard them, for it was clear to me as he turned away that his mind was fully occupied with some other matter far more important.
We were only halfway through our meal when Harry Tasker left the restaurant with a nod in our direction.
Luke took me to Kalgoorlie one day we met a man called Harry Tasker, a newspaper reporter, but it was just a matter of him and Luke exchanging a few words.
Harry Tasker, there was the diamond mine those people had salted in South Africa, and before that we were given the job of ruining a particularly unpleasant gambler in the South of France, and before that there was the business in Rome when you almost got caught stealing that icon from Bonello.
As Adrian Webb says, the same person who hired Buller to get rid of you must have hired somebody to get rid of Tasker, so he could never tell anybody else that Moira Glencullen had reappeared after all these years.
So all Harry Tasker had to do was go to the studio, ask a question or two, tell a plausible story, and order a print of the photograph taken of the young lady who had come in that morning with a fair-haired man, Miss Gaynor and Mr.
The Sid Buller attempt was his first and immediate response to learning from Tasker that you were alive and that his future control of the Glencullen fortune was therefore threatened.
Lafayette that the newspaper reporter, Harry Tasker, had come with his story?
Harry Tasker had examined the official copy of the will at Somerset House.
Harry Tasker from Australia and had later found brief notes about it that Webb had discarded.
Sometimes in the evenings, particularly on a Tuesday or a Wednesday when they did not have any money to go out, Tasker and Lantry would lie on their beds and see who could think the dirtiest thoughts and get the biggest and best erection.
So the chances of Brigg, Tasker or Lantry being killed, as things were then, were remote.
Brigg, Tasker and Sandy Jacobs went to the swimming pool in the afternoon.
At the first burst Tasker, howling like a blind wolf, rushed in the dark towards the patch of diminished light which he believed to be the door.
The only sounds they heard to alarm them were the huge volume of their own breathing, and once when Tasker accidentally fired a single round within a fifth of an inch of the ear lobe of the man in front.