unitasker
nounEtymology From uni- + task + -er, modelled on multitasker.
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.”2009 August 30, Ruth Pennebaker, “The Mediocre Multitasker”, in New York Times:
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.2016 March 4, Lesley Stockton, “The Best Paring Knife”, in The Sweethome, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2016:
- Antonyms
- multitasker