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or gopher
as in assistant
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Recent Examples of gofer
After treating the divas to a lovely performance on harp, the gofer can’t resist a bit of braggadocio.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
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
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gofer
Noun
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Grimes was a graduate assistant under Lou Holtz from 1981-82.—
Michael Harley,
Arkansas Online,
6 Apr. 2025
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Donovan was the lead assistant for the Wildcats during a 1993 run to the Final Four.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
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Mercedes is everybody’s dogsbody, at home and at work.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
23 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Sophie Monks Kaufman is a writer, film-industry factotum and mixed bag of expressive impulses based in London.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
14 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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At the time, each team’s clubhouse attendant was often responsible for grinding up rosin in a blender and throwing it in a sock.—
Jason Mastrodonato,
Mercury News,
29 Mar. 2025
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This first attendant is someone who has already gone through her own ceremony.—
Alejandra Rubio,
NPR,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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For example, housekeepers typically don't make as much as janitors.—
Alex Golden,
Axios,
1 Apr. 2025
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Things get serious when one of Tom’s housekeepers is swept up in the military dictatorship.—
Glenn Kenny,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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