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taskmasternoun a boss who assigns much workpitiless taskmaster that he was, Ebenezer Scrooge only reluctantly let his ill-paid clerk have Christmas Day off the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to doknown as a tough but fair taskmaster boss, boss man, captain, chief, foreman, head, headman, helmsman, honcho, jefe, kingpin, leader, master directress, mistressadministrator, commander, director, executive, general, governor, hierarch, higher-upleadman, manager, overseer, principal, skipper, standard-bearer, steward, straw boss, superintendent, superior, supervisordominator, lord, overlord, potentate, ruler, sovereign(also sovran)figureheadslave driverbaron, czar(also tsar or tzar), king, magnate, mogul, president, princebig cheese, big gun, bigwig, top dog, top guncohead, coleaderemployer, gaffer(British), ganger(British)micromanagersubchief, subdirector dependent, inferior, junior, secondary, subject, subordinate, underling in 1530 |