doer

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From do +‎ -er.

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Noun [edit]

doer (plural doers)

  1. Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 295:
      Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].
    • 2008, Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian, 25 Mar 2008:
      In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.

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Adverb [edit]

doer

  1. way down there


Norwegian [edit]

Noun [edit]

doer

  1. Indefinite plural of do

Portuguese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin dolēre, present active infinitive of doleō.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /du'eɾ/

Verb [edit]

doer (past participle doído)

  1. hurt

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