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[ doo-er ] / ˈdu ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR doer ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person or thing that does something, especially a person who gets things done with vigor and efficiency. a person characterized by action, as distinguished from one given to contemplation. Australian. an amusing or eccentric person; character. Origin of doer1300–50; Middle English. See do1, -er1 Words nearby doerdo down, doe, doe-eyed, doek, Doenitz, doer, doer and gone, Doerfler-Stewart test, does, does, doesn't, doeskin Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for doerGalon comes across as a doer for liberal causes, even if she does not always make headlines. Meretz Appeals To Smart Secular Women|Don Futterman|January 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST In short, he was indispensable for the fulfillment of the Obama Project, a Doer in a team of Dreamers. America's Prime Minister|Tunku Varadarajan|September 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST And he named himself: He's a doer—a credible doer, living on practical achievement, not fumes. The Mayors Who Can Revive America|Tina Brown|September 20, 2010|DAILY BEAST As one Russian newspaper enthused, Medvedev wants “to prove that he is a doer and not just a talker.” Is Democracy Dead in Russia?|Stephen Sestanovich|April 3, 2010|DAILY BEAST
In Old Bactrian, Huvarezyanha means the doer of a kind action. The History of Antiquity|Max Duncker And yet, for all that, it is not right that the doer of injustice such as thine should escape scot-free. Bubbles of the Foam|Unknown On the tomb of the doer of this havoc is written, with an unconscious sarcasm, "Multum ei debet ecclesia Wellensis." History of the Cathedral Church of Wells|Edward A. Freeman The doer must suffer,” said the Greeks: “you would soothe a Deity not to be soothed. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature|Various They wove no mild sort of halo for the head of a shillelagh-flourishing Whitechapel Countess descended from the writer and doer. The Amazing Marriage, Complete|George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for doer
nouna person or thing that does something or acts in a specified mannera doer of good an active or energetic person a thriving animal, esp a horse Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to doermotivator, achiever, dynamo, mover and shaker |