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factotum
Part of speech: NounA person employed for, or in charge of, all kinds of work.
Usage examples "factotum":- Daring, however, attracts daring; and this prince had gathered around him in our land the most desperate of the French royalists, whose hopes, hatreds, schemes, and unending requests for British money may be scanned by the curious in some thirty large volumes of letters bequeathed by their factotum the Comte de Puisaye, to the British Museum. - "The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)", John Holland Rose.
- These were Laurence and Gilbert Harrison, sons of Mr. Adiesen's factotum, and they were usually styled Lowrie and Gibbie. - "Viking Boys", Jessie Margaret Edmondston Saxby.
- Could you, would you teach me to farm, and I will keep your books, write your letters, manage your household, be your factotum, if you will allow me. - "Mr. Hogarth's Will", Catherine Helen Spence.