Today’s Words That Work: Factotum
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A factotum (fak-TOH-tum) — from the Latin for “to do” + “all” — is an assistant or servant, a Jack of all trades employed to do a variety of jobs.
Example (as used by Ben Sisario in a New York Times review of Evening’s Empire by Bill Flanagan): “The manager is an underexplored archetype in rock lit: an insider who enables the star life yet doesn’t live it, a mover-shaker as well as an abused.
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