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Meaning of gofer | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈɡoʊfɚ/

Definitions

A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.

informal

Equivalents

Examples

“They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers".”
“More and more people agreed to help with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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