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taskable

adj

Etymology

From task + -able.

  1. derived from taxō — “to censure; to charge”
  2. derived from tasca
  3. derived from tasque
  4. inherited from taske — “task, tax”
  5. suffixed as taskable — “task + able”

Definitions

  1. To which tasks can be assigned.

    • a taskable intelligent agent; a taskable sensor

  2. (of an enslaved person held on a plantation) Considered to be capable of performing…

    (of an enslaved person held on a plantation) Considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.

  3. On a plantation exploiting an enslaved labour force, a person considered to be capable of…

    On a plantation exploiting an enslaved labour force, a person considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.

    • Those [slaves] actually in the field were 44 taskables, while the remaining 13½ were employed as cart drivers, nurses, cooks for the negroes, carpenters, gardeners, house servants and stock minders […].
    • […] the whole labour of the 122 slaves maintained, does not exceed that which would be obtained from the employment of fifty-seven and a half able bodied labourers, or, in the language of the country, taskables.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA