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taskmaster

/task-mas-ter, tahsk-mah-ster/US // ˈtæskˌmæs tər, ˈtɑskˌmɑ stər //UK // (ˈtɑːskˌmɑːstə) //

任务主管,任务负责人,任务执行人,任务经理

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
    • : a person who supervises rigorously the work of others.

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Examples

  • The Wall Street Journal also reported recently that the role of CEO is evolving from that of taskmaster and lofty, untouchable figure to mentor and coach.

  • Musk is a taskmaster who plays fast and loose with the rules.

  • Kenny Atkinson, a development-minded taskmaster hired to guide a rebuild, was never going to be the right personality to lead Durant and Kyrie Irving on a title push.

  • CrossFitters work out in groups, moving to the demands of a benevolent taskmaster.

  • How could one face a régime in which the everlasting taskmaster held control?

  • In the words quoted with approval in the circular of 1835, the parish was to be "the hardest taskmaster and the worst pay-master."

  • One day, when Smith was threshing in the field, his cruel taskmaster beat him severely, although he had done nothing wrong.

  • He had been rather a hard taskmaster, though as a paymaster trustworthy; a ready-money man, just and ungenerous.

  • The words came in quick, gasping breaths, as a child might speak who tried to justify himself to his taskmaster.

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