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
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
Of course, if the parents are not devout, sincere, and affectionate,—if the whole affair on both sides is taskwork, or worse, hypocritical and false,—results must be very different indeed!
From The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by James Paton
Merely thou saidst: "At set of sun My humble taskwork will be done; And through the twilight street Come back to view my jewels, when Pattering through the throng of men Go merry schoolboys' feet."
From Ionica by William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.
From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold
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