taskmistress
- noun
- /ˈtæskˌmɪstrəs/
:
jefa de tareas
- For instance, CMS women missionaries walked a fine line between being seen as taskmistresses and having a somewhat strained friendship with their pupils and Old Girls, while young women in the schools were encouraged to be both competitive and cooperative with one another through an extracurricular program.
- seen as taskmistresses
Examples
-
The new director is known as a strict taskmistress, always pushing her team to meet tight deadlines.
-
GS: Do you think that I'm a good taskmistress?
Blog text (25) -
To escape, Erendira wishes for the death of her cruel taskmistress and only sees Ulises as a means to this end.
Academic text (2001) -
It was not that Mistress Elward was a harsh taskmistress; she was no more stern than Sahra's mother and certainly easier than Sheriam, but Sahra had not gone to the White Tower to end up back on a farm hoeing vegetables with the sun barely up.
Fiction book (1992) -
Many employees thrive under the guidance of a demanding taskmistress who expects nothing but their best work.
-
As a taskmistress, she sets high standards and often challenges her students to exceed their limits.
Synonyms
8
7.2
A strict person who makes other people work very hard
How Demanding
- Offensive
5
7.5
- Offensive
83
5.8
11
6.6
346
2.8
∞
1.6
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Taskmistress comes from the two parts task ('a job') and mistress ('a woman in charge'). So a taskmistress is like a female taskmaster or boss — a woman who gives hard or demanding work to others.