ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. (US, obsolete, historical) (of an enslaved person held on a plantation) Considered to be capable of performing labour, especially field labour.
  2. (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.

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Related dictionary entries include creditable, reassignable, multitaskable, assignable, allocatable, allocable.

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