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May 27, 2012
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task•mis•tress



Pronunciation: (task'mis"tris, täsk'-), [key]
—n.
1. a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, esp. burdensome ones, to others.
2. a woman who supervises others' work rigorously.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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