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单词 gofer
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gofer

enUK

go·fer

also go-fer G0176700 (gō′fər)n. Slang An employee who runs errands in addition to performing regular duties.
[Alteration of go for, from that person's having to go for or after things.]

gofer

(ˈɡəʊfə) nslang chiefly US and Canadian an employee or assistant whose duties include menial tasks such as running errands[C20: originally US: alteration of go for]

go•fer

go•pher

(ˈgoʊ fər)

n. Slang. an employee whose chief duty is running errands. [1925–30; resp. of go for]
Thesaurus
Noun1.gofer - an employee whose duties include running errandsemployee - a worker who is hired to perform a job
Translations
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gofer

enUK

gofer

One who completes errands for someone else, typically someone significantly more powerful or important. The word is an alteration of "go for." If you need anything at all, just let me know, and I'll have my gofer get it. I hate that I'm just my boss's gofer—I mean, isn't there something more important I could be doing than running around in search of a very specific pair of black socks?

gopher ball

In baseball, a pitch that the batter hits for a home run. "Gopher" is an alteration of "go for," referring either to the batter "going for" extra bases or home plate, or the ball "going for" a home run. It's 3-2—if he could just hit a gopher ball, he'd tie the game.See also: ball, gopher

gopher

and gofer (ˈgofɚ)1. n. someone who goes for things and brings them back. (From go for.) You got a gopher who can go get some coffee? 2. n. a dupe; a pawn; an underling. The guy’s just a gofer. He has no say in anything.

gofer

verbSee gopher

gopher ball

n. a baseball pitch that is hit as a home run. (When it is hit, the batter will go for home.) The center fielder did a dive over the fence trying to get the gopher ball. See also: ball, gopher

Gofer

enUK

Gofer

(language)A lazy functional language designed by MarkJones at the Programming Research Group,Oxford, UK in 1991. It is very similar to Haskell 1.2. Ithas lazy evaluation, higher order functions, pattern matching, and type classes, lambda, case, conditional andlet expressions, and wild card, "as" and irrefutable patterns. It lacks modules, arrays and standardclasses.

Gofer comes with an interpreter (in C), a compiler whichcompiles to C, documentation and examples. Unix Version2.30 (1994-06-10) Mac_Gofer version 0.16 beta. Ported toSun, Acorn Archimedes, IBM PC, Macintosh, Atari,Amiga.

Version 2.30 added support for contexts in datatype and memberfunction definitions, Haskell style arrays, an externalfunction calling mechanism for gofc, an experimentalimplementation of Launchbury/Peyton Jones style lazyfunctional state threads, an experimental implementation of"do" notation for monad comprehensions.

Latest version: HUGS.

["Introduction to Gofer 2.20", M.P. Jones.]

[The implementation of the Gofer functional programmingsystem, Mark P. Jones, Research Report YALEU/DCS/RR-1030, YaleUniversity, Department of Computer Science, May 1994. FTP:nebula.cs.yale.edu/pub/yale-fp/reports].

http://cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/.

FTP Yale, FTP Glasgow, FTP Chalmers.
MedicalSeegopher

Gofer

enUK

Gofer

An employee responsible for making coffee, picking up dry cleaning and other menial tasks. While gofers have low status and usually are poorly paid, they may have access to important persons in the company or industry. This may in turn help gofers advance their careers. This is especially the case in the entertainment sector.

GOFER


AcronymDefinition
GOFERGive Oil for Energy Recovery (used motor oil collection; Santee Cooper; South Carolina)

gofer

enUK
  • noun

Words related to gofer

noun an employee whose duties include running errands

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