taskmaster Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who imposes hard or continuous work

WordNet


Task"mas`ter noun
Definitions
  1. One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11.
    All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.

Webster 1913