gofer
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈɡoʊfər/
- Informal
:
recadero
- Stan applied for a job and was hired as a gofer to run errands for the team.
- a gofer guy
- gofer or assistant
- gofer job
Examples
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Although she worked as a lowly gofer at a TV station in Chicago where Wes was a newly hired roving reporter, the first time they saw each other was at her second job as hostess of an upscale steakhouse.
Fiction book (2002) -
Yet she was the gofer who got the drinks for the billionaire and his crew.
Fiction book (1990) -
Working as a gofer on production crews?
Fiction book (1991) -
I'd chosen it over an offer to be a gofer boy for a firm of Republican lawyers.
Fiction book (1998) -
I'm a gofer at Sotheby's.
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Bennie Redhair, who served as the chief's secretary and gofer, was sitting behind his desk looking very, very nervous.
Fiction book (1993) -
In some instances, teaching assistants will find "teaching" is actually researching for the professor or being a general "gofer."
Academic text (1991) -
Lisa Gorman, one of the partners, is at her desk sorting envelopes and talking quietly to her gofer, Beth Bamforth.
Fiction book (2002) -
After some discussion, Marla postponed graduate school and went to work as a paralegal in downtown Minneapolis, which seemed fine at first but in the end amounted to little more than a poorly paid, coffee-fetching gofer ship.
Fiction book (2002) -
She needed to hire a new gofer—the school year had started, and she no longer had a fifteen-year-old to depend on—to scour the various markets she worked in, search of old men selling used golf balls.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
16
8.0
A person who runs small errands and obeys a boss
7
7.3
A person who does small, unimportant jobs for other people
1
3.9
A man who does small repair jobs around the home
A young boy who runs small errands in a hotel or house
A person who does basic physical work to help others, like cleaning or lifting
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gofer comes from the phrase go for, which means 'to go and get something', so a gofer is someone sent to fetch things or do small tasks in an office. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine a busy little gopher that runs around getting things for people.