Taskable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Taskable is an adjective meaning (technology) To which tasks can be assigned.
Meaning
(technology) To which tasks can be assigned.
More Meanings
- (US, obsolete, historical) (of an enslaved person held on a plantation) Considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
- (US, obsolete, historical) On a plantation exploiting an enslaved labour force, a person considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
Example Sentences
a taskable intelligent agent; a taskable sensor
A listing of an early-nineteenth-century Lowcountry estate revealed but one driver for 104 slaves (or forty-five taskables), and he was both an old man and a mere half-hand.
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.
Word Forms
- taskables
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include creditable, reassignable, multitaskable, assignable, allocatable, allocable.
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