taskmaster

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

taskmaster
    n 1: someone who imposes hard or continuous work

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Taskmaster \Task"mas`ter\, n.
   One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one
   whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. --Ex. i. 11.
   [1913 Webster]

         All is, if I have grace to use it so,
         As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.    --Milton.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "taskmaster":
      Big Brother, Simon Legree, auditor, boatswain, boss, chief,
      comptroller, controller, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker,
      foreman, gaffer, ganger, head, headman, inspector, monitor,
      noncommissioned officer, overman, overseer, proctor, sirdar,
      slave driver, straw boss, subforeman, super, superintendent,
      supervisor, surveyor, visitor

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