| Main Entry: | factotum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handyperson |
Synonyms: |
Mr/Ms Fixit, general employee, jack of all trades, man/girl Friday, odd-job person, personal assistant |
| Main Entry: | agent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person representing an organization or person in business |
Synonyms: |
abettor, actor, advocate, ambassador, assignee, assistant, attorney, broker, commissioner, delegate, deputy, doer, emissary, envoy, executor, factor, factotum, functionary, go-between, handler, intermediary, lawyer, mediary, middleperson, minister, mover, negotiator, officer, operative, operator, principal, proctor, promoter, proxy, representative, salesperson, servant, steward, substitute, surrogate, ten percenter, worker |
| Main Entry: | drudge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slave, very hard worker |
Synonyms: |
factotum, grind*, laborer, menial, nose to grindstone, peon*, plodder, servant, toiler, workaholic, worker, workhorse |
Antonyms: |
idler, laze |
| Main Entry: | lackey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | servant |
Synonyms: |
attendant, butler, domestic, doormat, drudge, factotum, flunkey, retainer, steward, subordinate, toady, underling, valet, yes-person |
| Main Entry: | maid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | servant |
Synonyms: |
au pair, biddy, chambermaid, cleaning lady, cleaning woman, damsel, domestic, factotum, girl, handmaiden, help, hired girl, housemaid, live-in, maidservant, miss, nursemaid, woman |
| Notes: | made means produced by a manufacturing process, while a maid is a female servant or an unmarried girl |
| Main Entry: | jack-of-all-trades |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handy person |
Synonyms: |
factotum, handyman, pantologist, proteus, tinker |
| Concept: | Agent. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager., bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum., workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper, roustabout., maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright., machinist, mechanician, engineer., sempstress, semstress, seamstress; needlewoman, workwoman; tailor, cordwainer., minister (instrument); servant; representative (commissioner), (deputy) [more]., coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae; personnel.
-phrases
quorum pars magna fui [Vergil]; faber est quisque fortunae suae.
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