gofer

variants or gopher

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Recent Examples of gofer By age 13, Vail was working at multiple radio stations as a gofer, soaking up information from DJs. Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024 Radio station gofer to promoter Lifelong friend Ron Beatty recalls Vail always being passionate about the music business. Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024 One man, a lowly gofer, testified that he and others were instructed to get cleaning supplies and pick up the mutilated corpses, which were stuffed into plastic garbage bags. Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 The group brought in others: a butcher here, a car-wash operator there, in addition to dozens of gofers, petty drug peddlers, and lookouts who kept an eye on the whereabouts of every resident, visitor, and passerby in the G.U.’s areas of control. Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gofer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gofer
Noun
  • An assistant discovered Baena's body at a Los Angeles-area home around 10:30 a.m.
    Jen Juneau, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The Huskers’ 40-year-old running backs coach is the only assistant without terms of a contract revealed for this year.
    Mitch Sherman, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Having progressed from bottle washing and being a general dogsbody to a youth strength and conditioning coach, Bunce served as Southampton’s head of athletic development between 2011 and 2014, working closely with youngsters such as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Luke Shaw.
    Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Mercedes is everybody’s dogsbody, at home and at work.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Sophie Monks Kaufman is a writer, film-industry factotum and mixed bag of expressive impulses based in London.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Alberto, who counted with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as his vice-president and de facto factotum of power, executed a delicate balancing act while having to negotiate with both his internal rivals and the opposition coalition, Juntos por el Cambio.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In other words, exactly the type of drudge work that corporates have outsourced for decades to offshore teams from the likes of Accenture, Cognizant and Infosys.
    Iain Martin, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Erickson and Turner were working as security guards, Williamson as a door attendant, and Johnson-Carson as a front desk agent, police said.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2025
  • He was charged with one count of interference with flight crew members and attendants by assault or intimidation.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • When a mysterious, Syrian housekeeper enters their lives, the family’s secrets and emotions are brought to light, while the housekeeper’s hidden agenda threatens to reshape their world forever.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Now, practically everything moves in slow motion — including ominous cutbacks to a giant CG hourglass — as Tykwer introduces the Engels and their immigrant housekeeper Alia (Joyce Abu-Zeid).
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025

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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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