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Factotum Word Person Job Involves Kinds Work Years

word factotum
definition A person whose job involves doing many different kinds of work.
eg_sentence Over the years she had become the office factotum, who might be doing legal research one day and organizing the company picnic the next.
explanation This odd word doesn't come from ancient Latin, but it was coined to look as if it did. The term Johannes factotum, meaning “Jack-of-all-trades,” first shows up in writing in 1592 to describe none other than Shakespeare himself. The word gofer is similar to factotum but a bit less dignified. In other words, a factotum is an assistant, but one who may have taken over some fairly important functions
IPA factotum*

Tags: mwvb::unit:11, mwvb::unit:11:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki

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