TASKMASTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does taskmaster mean? 

• TASKMASTER (noun)
  The noun TASKMASTER has 1 sense:

1. someone who imposes hard or continuous work

  Familiarity information: TASKMASTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TASKMASTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who imposes hard or continuous work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("taskmaster" is a kind of...):

supervisor (one who supervises or has charge and direction of)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "taskmaster"):

slave driver (a supervisor of slaves at work)

taskmistress (a woman taskmaster)

 Context examples 

For the past two years, you’ve worked valiantly with Saturn, the great taskmaster, for the demands on you since December 2017 were heavy.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had entitled the story Adventure, and it was the apotheosis of adventure—not of the adventure of the storybooks, but of real adventure, the savage taskmaster, awful of punishment and awful of reward, faithless and whimsical, demanding terrible patience and heartbreaking days and nights of toil, offering the blazing sunlight glory or dark death at the end of thirst and famine or of the long drag and monstrous delirium of rotting fever, through blood and sweat and stinging insects leading up by long chains of petty and ignoble contacts to royal culminations and lordly achievements.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Saturn may be a taskmaster, but his methods are effective, and we all have so much to show for our efforts afterward.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

For two years, since December 2017, you have hosted Saturn, the taskmaster planet, in this same solar eighth house of other people’s money.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When taskmaster Saturn exits your eighth house of other people’s money on March 21 (the day after Mars will conjoin Jupiter), navigating your finances will become easier.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Saturn is quite a taskmaster and expects you to concentrate on your career goals without distraction, almost at the exclusion of everything else.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You currently have Saturn, often called the taskmaster planet, in direct opposition to the transiting Sun, your ruling star.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Saturn shows up every 29 years, so if you do the math, you see that you can only have two to three visits of taskmaster Saturn to Capricorn in your lifetime.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Saturn will remain in your eighth house for the better part of 2020, and the taskmaster often calls for a sacrifice of some sort to capture a major goal.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)