noun
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hard or unpleasant work
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a rare word for piecework
Etymology
Origin of taskwork
Example Sentences
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The only thing that troubles me for you is the taskwork of investigation.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
Even to the lamentable taskwork of bad comic engravings for dead and putrescent “Wit’s Magazines” his biographer has tracked him and taken note of his doings.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
But I have a taskwork to accomplish—one, I think, which God, by fitting me thereto, has pointed out as mine.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. by Various
A dull coarse web her small life seems made of; but even from its taskwork, which is undertaken for childhood itself, there are glittering threads cast across its woof and warp of care.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster
Guthrie’s notion of “An Author by Profession,” entirely derived from his own character, was twofold; literary taskwork, and political degradation.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
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