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Factotum Fak Toh Tuhm Noun Servant Low Level Employee Tasked Things

Front factotum \fak-TOH-tuhm\
Back noun
A servant or a low-level employee tasked with many things.

[From Latin factotum, from facere (to do) + totus (all). Earliest documented use: 1573.]

"Now, a reporter trying to interview a business source is confronted by a phalanx of factotums." - David Carr; The Puppetry of Quotation Approval; The New York Times; Sep 16, 2012.

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