Definitions for taskmasters

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taskmasters task·mas·ter

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

IPA: /ˈtæskˌmæs tər, ˈtɑskˌmɑ stər/

Taskmasters is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 504 anagrams from letters in taskmasters (aaekmrssstt).

Definitions for taskmasters

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 taskmasters

First recorded in 1520-30; task + master

Examples for taskmasters

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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