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factotum

noun

Definition of factotumnext
as in assistant
formal a person whose job involves doing many different types of work He was the office factotum.

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Recent Examples of factotum The system was so rotten that the FBI indicted nine FIFA factotums in 2015—but that was another era. — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2026 Ironically, a hiring surge of factotums has helped push San Diego to the financial brink. — Kate Callen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026 But the ringer is Michael Cera, as Norwegian tutor Bjørn Lund, employed as an all-purpose factotum by the shady, swaggering, death-defying entrepreneur played by Del Toro. — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025 Sophie Monks Kaufman is a writer, film-industry factotum and mixed bag of expressive impulses based in London. — Hazlitt, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for factotum
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  1. assistant
  2. attendant
  3. servant
  4. steward
Noun
  • Harp, 35, has been Donald Trump‘s executive assistant since his first day back in office, and is often by his side.
    — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2026
  • There's also an AI voice assistant for activating in-car features, and a mobile app for remote air conditioning management, charging status monitoring, and automatic parking.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of assistant
Noun
  • Every employee here, from the bartenders to the spa attendants, always seems to be just one step ahead of you.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Collectively, the hotels employ more than 7,000 room attendants, cooks, dishwashers, front desk agents, servers, and food service workers at more than 40 hotels downtown and near McCormick Place.
    — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of attendant
Noun
  • The story says two Irish servants working at the Belle Haven mansions in the late 1800s fell in love.
    — Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026
  • That morning Georg Winter, Hitler’s personal servant, is understood to have forced open Raubal’s room, which was locked from the inside, and found her body on the floor, according to Munich police records.
    — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2026
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  • According to the tech company, the end of digital secrets is imminent, unless governments and digital stewards act quickly and adapt more secure online systems in time.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Activision, which Microsoft officially purchased just under three years ago, will now also take control of venerable studio Rare (Sea of Thieves) and the Age of Empires stewards at World’s Edge.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
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“Factotum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/factotum. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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