Meaning

2 senses
  1. Someone who supervises workers, especially one who imposes hard or burdensome work.

    Zuchtmeister, Antreiber, Aufseher

    someone who imposes hard or continuous work

  2. (figuratively)A source of hard work or responsibility.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. He's a fabulous taskmaster.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
Supervisor:

Origin

From task + master.

From task + master.

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Forms

plural: taskmasters
Singulartaskmaster
Pluraltaskmasters

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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