gofer

variants or gopher

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for gofer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gofer
Noun
  • Each agent, from autonomous drones delivering packages to personal AI assistants managing healthcare schedules, informs and learns from the collective ecosystem.
    Cathy Hackl, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • In November 2023 riots broke out in Dublin when an Algerian national was arrested after allegedly stabbing and injuring three young children and a care assistant.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 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
  • Hamilton plays the role of a parking attendant, originally played by Richard Edon in the classic movie.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Was there prosecutorial misconduct attendant to Nixon after investigations began?
    Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Many are the children of immigrants who work or worked as nannies, caregivers to the elderly, housekeepers and gardeners.
    Daisy Verduzco Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Her relationships with her father, godmother and confidante, Lizzie, who is a housekeeper for the Murray family, are wonderfully well-written.
    The Know, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025

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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

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