FACTOTUMS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

factotums

noun

plural of factotum

as in assistants

formal a person whose job involves doing many different types of work He was the office factotum.

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Recent Examples of factotums Ironically, a hiring surge of factotums has helped push San Diego to the financial brink. — Kate Callen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026

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Noun

And with pitching coach Matt Blake on a new three-year deal, his assistants, Preston Claiborne and Desi Druschel, will return, too.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 10 Nov. 2026
Those include testimony from former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Epstein’s former lawyer and accountant, and two of his former assistants.

— Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of assistants

Noun

Artnews reports that the work had been displayed unbolted on a plinth for the duration of the fair’s November 4–8 run, and that there had been four attendants on duty the day it was taken.

— News Desk, Artforum, 12 Nov. 2026
The union bargains with the Chicago Parking Association, which represents the more than a dozen private parking companies that employ the parking garage attendants, porters and customer service representatives represented by Local 727.

— Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of attendants

Noun

Banks paid millions of dollars by today’s standards to bring along a botanist, artists, servants, his greyhound and scientific equipment.

— Saar Shahar, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
The remains of these servants, or retainers, were first excavated from the funerary complexes at Abydos, eastern Egypt, which date from around 3000 BC, in the 1920s.

— Jack Guy, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026

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