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What (who) is factotum - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Factotum (disambiguation); Factotums
factotum
(factotums)
A factotum is a servant who is employed to do a wide variety of jobs for someone. (FORMAL)
N-COUNT
Factotum
·noun A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.
factotum
n.
Doer of all work, jack-at-all-trades.
Wikipedia
Factotum
Factotum may refer to:
- A handyman, employed as a servant
- Factotum (novel), a 1975 novel by Charles Bukowski
- Factotum (film), a 2005 film adaptation of the novel
- A character class in 3.5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons
- Factotum (arts organisation), an arts organisation based in Belfast
- factotum (software), an authentication system of Plan 9
- "Largo al factotum", an aria from The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini
Examples of use of factotum
1. Shelly appeared in the 2005 movie Factotum‘‘ with Matt Dillon.
2. Through his convoluted testimony, the attorney general represented "the client" as a useful factotum again.
3. But the US president is no mere imperial factotum – what George says, goes.
4. These credits were Gordon Brown’s invention, based on an idea that his factotum, Ed Balls, had brought back from America.
5. Since their first meeting, she has acted as an interpreter and general factotum, helping to ease his integration into the jetset Riviera society.