multitaskingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌmʌl.tiˈtɑːs.kɪŋ/us/ˌmʌl.tiˈtæs.kɪŋ/multitasking noun [ U ] (PERSON)
a person's ability to do more than one thing at a time:
Women are often very good at multitasking.
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Busy and active
- a hive of activity/industry idiom
- arena
- be (as) busy as a bee idiom
- be all go idiom
- be at work idiom
- be back in harness idiom
- buzz
- foot
- girlie swot
- hard-working
- harness
- have (got) sth on
- have sth on your plate idiom
- knee-deep
- mad
- spread
- spurt
- stimulating
- tie sb up
- well away idiom
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multitasking noun [ U ] (COMPUTER)
the ability of a computer to operate several programs at one time:
The machine allows multitasking without the need to buy extra hardware.
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Computer concepts
- aeroplane mode
- airplane mode
- atomicity
- augmented reality
- back end
- blogosphere
- clone
- cloud
- corruption
- default to sth
- electronic
- gigabyte
- multimedia
- reboot
- template
- tuple
- virtual
- virtually
- web hosting
- what you see is what you get idiom
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multitask
verb [ I ] uk/ˌmʌl.tiˈtɑːsk/us/ˌmʌl.tiˈtæsk/