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taskable

taskable adjective: to which tasks can be assigned.

Adjective

taskable (not comparable)

  1. To which tasks can be assigned.
    • a taskable intelligent agent; a taskable sensor
  2. (US, historical, obsolete) (of an enslaved person held on a plantation) Considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
    • [The 16-year-old boy has] been taskable these 3 years past.1789, record of sale of enslaved people by Thomas Washington, cited in Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 198, footnote...
    • defendant […] states […] many of them were diseased and not taskable;1796, court record, Neufville v. Mitchell, 1 Desaussure 480, South Carolina, cited in Helen Tunnicliff Catterall (ed.), Judicial Cases concerning American Slavery and the Negro, Carnegie Institution...

Noun

taskable (plural taskables)

  1. (US, historical, obsolete) 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 […].1829, Basil Hall, chapter 18, in Travels in North America, volume 2, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, page 229
    • […] 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.1833, George Richardson Porter, The Tropical Agriculturalist,, London: Smith, Elder, page 40
    Synonyms:
    taskable hand, working slave

Synonyms of taskable

  • taskable hand
  • working slave

Forms of taskable

pluraltaskables

Origin of taskable

From task + -able.

Questions about taskable

What does taskable mean?
Taskable means to which tasks can be assigned.
What part of speech is taskable?
Taskable can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near taskable in the dictionary

  1. task-orientedness
  2. task-positive
  3. task-specific
  4. task-work
  5. task-works
  6. taskable
  7. taskables
  8. taskage
  9. taskbar
  10. taskbars
  11. taskboard

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