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Factotum
[fak-TOH-dəm]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Latin, mid-16th century
1.
An employee who does all kinds of work.
Examples of Factotum in a sentence
"I made the ink; I was warehouseman, and every thing, and, in short, quite a factotum.' — Benjamin Franklin"
"You'd better give him a raise; he's a real factotum."
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