Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An assessor or regulator of taxes.
- n. One who imposes a task.
- n. One who performs a task, or piece of labor; in Scotland, often, a laborer who receives his wages in kind.
- n. A thresher of grain.
- n. A reaper.
Wiktionary
- n. One who imposes a task.
- n. One who performs a task, as a day-laborer
- n. Scotland A laborer who receives his wages in kind.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who imposes a task.
- n. rare One who performs a task, as a day-laborer.
- n. Scot. A laborer who receives his wages in kind.
Examples
“The difference between him, that plodder, and me, the brilliant multi-tasker, is that I might have looked busier as I frantically shuffled through papers and tapped computer keys and shouted into my cell phone.”
“To some, a rice cooker might seem like a uni-tasker, which is not necessarily a bad thing if you eat a lot of rice.”
“She sounds like a fun loving multi-tasker, talented woman, with blue-blood running through her veins, that is willing to blaze trails for herself, her family and for generations to come.”
“Show me that you are a multi-tasker, especially if I have nothing relevant or funny to offer.”
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“You seem to be quite the multi-tasker which I believe most of ous mummies are.”
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“I do not believe he is ignoring any issue, but multi-tasker though he, no one can do everything at once.”
“Remember, he's the great multi-tasker who rates himself an A. Tim”
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“Multi-lingual, he is also an incredible multi-tasker, holding or having held many of the key jobs in the international arbitration world, including the Presidency of the London Court of International Arbitration and the World Bank Administrative Tribunal while moonlighting every few years as an on-the-spot arbitrator for the Olympic Games (someone has to be on tap to decide doping challenges).”
“Besides, McPain can only do one thing at a time, he isn't a multi tasker for sure ...”
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Archaic Occupations
Some of these professions still exist today but the word for them has changed; some (mason or boatswain, for example), are still in use but are included for their rich historical associations. Som...
yeoman, summoner, chandler, ostler, carter, chapman, slaver, mason, cordwainer, cooper, glazier, dyer and 187 more...
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