| 词汇 | factotum |
| 释义 | factotum noun[ C ] formaluk /fækˈtəʊ.təm/ us /fækˈtoʊ.t̬əm/ a person employed to do all types of jobs for someone: 事务总管;勤杂工 He became a sort of general factotum for the band.他成为相当于这一品牌的事务总监这样一个角色。 People who serve other people anti-slavery below/above stairsidiom boot boy butler dogsbody handmaiden housemaid labourer lackey lady's maid lapdog retainer serfdom servant skivvy slave slave trade slaver valet vassal Examples of factotumfactotum Starting as a sort of factotum, the clerk progressively climbed the hierarchy through the gradual mastering of the administrative paperwork of the department to which he belonged. Many a manager must be a general factotum, the buyer and the seller, the director of production and the obtainer of goods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When a program wants to authenticate to a service, it requests a key from factotum. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He also carried on the business of land surveyor, and was factotum in most of the parochial offices. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He was endowed with the qualitiesdevotion to friends and duty, patriotism, and unswerving integritywhich made him the ideal sounding board and factotum among the prominent politicians of his day. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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