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
  • Corbet and others in the cast and crew also succumbed; Corbet’s assistant had to follow him around with an IV bag hung on a clothes hanger.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Once an applicant applies through Chipotle’s digital system, Boatwright continued, the AI assistant asks them initial questions and schedules an interview with the general manager.
    Julie Coleman, CNBC, 5 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • She was also employed in housekeeping and as a front desk attendant for the AmericInn Motel in Hutchinson.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The second accusation occurred in a parking lot in view of a parking-garage attendant.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • June fires her housekeeper rather than ask her to not eat fast food in her house.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Democrats, unions and liberal groups criticized him for his remarks against workplace protections such as the minimum wage and overtime rules, and conservative publications seized on Mr. Puzder’s employment of an undocumented immigrant as his housekeeper.
    Chris Cameron, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.

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