Used in a Sentence

gofer

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for gofer.

Editorial note

A skilled waiter is not just a glorified gofer, but someone who knows the food business inside and out.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of gofer gathered in one view.

noun

(informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gofer.

noun

(informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.

Example sentences

1

A skilled waiter is not just a glorified gofer, but someone who knows the food business inside and out.

2

Imagine being confined in bed or in a wheelchair, and have this thing be your gofer / nimble hands.

3

It enables the sandbox to access the container filesystem directly (without having to go through the gofer).

4

If you treat ChatGPT as a gofer to research information, then you can certainly save time.

5

It routes file requests over RPC to the outside Gofer server running on the host machine.

6

The Gofer server reads the files on the host machine and ships the data back to the sandbox over RPC.

7

First, Gofer only sends file descriptors of the files permitted to be accessed by the sandbox, like the files under /sandbox/foobar/.

8

The uni down the road introduced students to Gofer (Haskell circa 1992), then Pascal.

9

Remember, for us the machine already plays the gofer role: handling menial tasks.

10

Seek out people in the Malaysian media industries, see how productions are created by being a non-actor gofer, and learn how to create productions yourself.

11

Seaside works, yet it has not been officially release for 2.0 hence we rely on a gofer script to load all dependencies.

12

The DirectFS setup is basically letting the Gofer process to open a file on the host machine and ships the file descriptor to the sandbox process.

Quote examples

1

It's funny how many things land in your lap when you are a kind of "gofer" for your team, ha ha.

2

It had an entirely different meaning, similar to serf or 'gofer' -- whereas when people used it about a woman, it basically meant the same as "asshole".

3

In fields like traditional engineering/accounting/medicine/ investment banking/law/management consulting, you have to "do your time" by playing gofer to seniors and working overtime.

4

It wouldn't matter if the job was standing at an assembly station, but anything with legs is obviously targetting more general use cases such as "gofer" - fetching parts from bins, etc.

Proper noun examples

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By the fourth year I had been exposed to Prolog, Java, Delphi, C, C++, Gofer, Smalltalk, Modula, Pascal, Lisp (in various variants) and probably a few other things that I've since forgotten.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use gofer in a sentence?

A skilled waiter is not just a glorified gofer, but someone who knows the food business inside and out.

What does gofer mean?

(informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.

What part of speech is gofer?

gofer is commonly used as noun.