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Taskwork   Listen
noun
Taskwork  n.  Work done as a task; also, work done by the job; piecework.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Taskwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... hearth those years have fled, The daily toil still wins the daily bread; No books deck sorrow with fantastic dyes; Her fond romance her woman heart supplies; And, haply in the few still moments given, (Day's taskwork done), to memory, death, and heaven, To that unuttered poem may belong Thoughts of such pathos ...
— The Pilgrims Of The Rhine • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... chief building material of the energetic people of Babylon and the other great cities of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys. The laborious work of brickmaking was generally assigned to captives as taskwork, and it appears to me highly probable that "the tale" of the brickmaker or his taskmaster might be most readily marked by simply indenting the side of the soft tale brick with the corner angle of a dry one; and that thus the strikingly ...
— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth



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