gofer

variants or gopher

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gofer 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 When Grainge was seventeen, a talent agent in Soho hired him as a sandwich guy, the lowliest gofer. John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gofer 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gofer
Noun
  • The Jets are still trying to find a new general manager after conducting second interviews this week with Washington assistant general manager Lance Newmark, Broncos assistant general manager Darren Mougey and Bengals senior personnel executive Trey Brown.
    Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Best of The Bee: A former executive assistant at UC Davis accused of embezzlement while working for the campus fire department made her first appearance Tuesday in Yolo Superior Court , via Rosalio Ahumada.
    Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 24 Jan. 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
  • But for those who experienced the desperate, dismal drudge of Forest’s three seasons in League One, the third tier of English football, from 2005-08 — and visits to clubs including Yeovil, Carlisle, Tranmere and Hartlepool — there has been a long wait for moments like this.
    Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Freed from drudge work, these workers should be empowered to focus on more creative tasks and problem-solving.
    Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Read Next National Flight attendant feared she’d be fired for removing mask to use inhaler, lawsuit says February 06, 2023 3:00 PM Read Next California Patient billed $6,000 for a urine drug test.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2025
  • For me, the in-seat service coupled with a bus attendant offering snacks and hot towels made the journey feel more like a movie theater experience than a commute.
    Aaraf Adam, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The adaptation will star Sweeney as Millie, a young woman on her last chance who becomes a housekeeper for the well-to-do couple Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew.
    Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The housekeeper watched as the young couple began investing in houses around the area, renting them out and relying on the proceeds as their main source of income.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025

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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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