unitasker

noun

Etymology

From uni- + task + -er, modelled on multitasker.

Definitions

  1. A person who does a single thing at a time.

    • Even with scientific validation at his fingertips, Mr. Leleux frets that the Stanford study may have been done “by a bitter unitasker like me who wants to validate his own existence.”
  2. A tool, particularly a kitchen utensil, which is useful only for performing a particular,…

    A tool, particularly a kitchen utensil, which is useful only for performing a particular, specialized task

    • Bird’s beak: This style [of paring knife] has a shorter, curved blade that’s specifically designed for turning vegetables. It is really a unitasker and has no room on our knife strip at home.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for unitasker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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