multitasker
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- noun
- /ˈmʌltiˌtæskər/
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multitarea
- You knew I was a multitasker... ...when you married me, right?
- the ultimate multitasker
- a master multitasker
We found that the high multitaskers were, first of all, highly distractible.
- We found that the high multitaskers were, first of all, highly distractible.
- Boo, but with supported apps, it's faster, smoother, and more intuitive for multitaskers than ever before.
- Like to you, did it come off as like a, a genius multitasker or just like a dopey kid who doesn't, you know, can't focus on things.
- I can see this being popular for game streamers, gamers, multitaskers, and even guys like Kirk.
- What's more interesting is that people who sell are self-proclaimed like good multitaskers.
Examples
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Boo, but with supported apps, it's faster, smoother, and more intuitive for multitaskers than ever before.
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Although they form a generation of multitaskers, they also experience, in the words of Linda Stone (quoted in Levy, 2006), continuous partial attention.
Academic text (2006) -
I am not a multitasker, so when I write, I am quite unaware of what is going on around me.
Blog text (3) -
I am by nature a multitasker and not a get-down-on-the-floor-and-play-with-kids kind of person.
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I'm just not a very good multitasker when it comes to sewing.
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I'm a huge multitasker, and as crazy as this seems, I'm often at my best when I'm busiest.
Blog text (32) -
Women are great multitaskers.
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It turns out that heavy media multitaskers think very differently than low media multitaskers.
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"It's unbelievable what we can do... we're awesome jugglers, amazing organizers, and crazy multitaskers!"
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As a multitasker, she effortlessly juggles work, family, and personal interests every day.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Multitasker comes from three simple parts: multi- meaning 'many', task meaning 'a job', and -er meaning 'a person who does something', so a multitasker is someone who does many jobs at the same time.