Definitions for taskmaster

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taskmaster task·mas·ter

Spelling: [task-mas-ter, tahsk-mah-ster]

IPA: /ˈtæskˌmæs tər, ˈtɑskˌmɑ stər/

Taskmaster is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 488 anagrams from letters in taskmaster (aaekmrsstt).

Definitions for taskmaster

noun

1. a person whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
2. a person who supervises rigorously the work of others.

Origin of taskmaster

First recorded in 1520-30; task + master

Examples for taskmaster

All that the taskmaster cared for was the completion of the daily tale.

But when the sun set she claimed her freedom; and her taskmaster did not dare to say her nay.

But the galley-slave of the Commune will only see the taskmaster.

What he needed was a taskmaster like you to call him to terms now and then.

The taskmaster does not now interfere with him as he was wont to do when he first arrived.

We may look upon Him as a taskmaster, or we may look upon Him as a righteous Father.

But as soon as the taskmaster has departed, even a pretence of work ceases.

Boys are easily mastered by a taskmaster who is master of her task.

There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

He fled from a taskmaster, not from one who was in any just sense a guardian.