Unitasker

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    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."

Example

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"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.”"

Etymology

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

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