Associations to the word «Taskmaster»

Wiktionary

TASKMASTER, noun. Someone who supervises workers, especially one who imposes hard or burdensome work.
TASKMASTER, noun. (figuratively) A source of hard work or responsibility.

Dictionary definition

TASKMASTER, noun. Someone who imposes hard or continuous work.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope