Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who does something: a doer of evil deeds.
- n. A particularly active, energetic person: a real doer in party politics.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who does something; one who performs or executes; an efficient actor or agent.
- n. Specifically In Scots law, an agent or attorney.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who does; one who performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
- n. (Scots Law) An agent or attorney; a factor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who acts and gets things done
Etymologies
- From do + -er. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing.”
“Doubtless Jelchs will make outcry when the hand of the evil-doer is nigh him.”
“Whatever normative analysis they apply when the doer is a private entity doesn't seem to apply when the doer is a government.”
The Veterans Administration Model, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Your position seems to be that these same activites actually have *good* consequences when the doer is a government.”
Robert Fogel Interview, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Therefore faith rests in ‘tota ratio facti est in potential facientis’ which is ‘the power of the doer is the reason of the thing done.’”
“Following a mild concussion, Kat's transformed from a 'dreamer' to a 'doer' - foreseeing the future and chatting to ghosts.”
“The doer was the Board of Works, or the “Board” as it was familiarly termed; and were it not that those ill words must have returned to the bosoms which vented them, and have flown no further, no Board could ever have been so terribly curse-laden.”
“In friendships based on virtue on the other hand, complaints do not arise, but the purpose of the doer is a sort of measure; for in purpose lies the essential element of virtue and character.”
“The dictum "ala'amaalo benniat" (intent of the doer is the main measure of his action) was the first principle of Islamic law that we studied.”
“By merit (meritum) in general is understood that property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward (prœmium, merces) from him in whose service the work is done.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doer’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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AGRI - horse breeding
place bet, Przewalski's horse, piaffe, genus Claviceps, stadium jumping, draft animal, snaffle bit, noseband, equestrian sport, endurance riding, curb bit, dressage and 678 more...
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-er
person who; thing or action; repeatedly; comparative degree
farmer, New Yorker, double-header, flicker, cooler, better, flasher, fighter, worker, singer, dancer, doer and 13 more...
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faux comparatives
temp, temper, tempest, hone, honer, honest, dive, diver, divest, earn, earner, earnest and 46 more...
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I Am the...
Adjectives that describe what I may or may not be or whom to some I might appear to be...
charlatan, pimp, degenerate, miscreant, painter, creator, trouper, do-gooder, chum, chump, genius, gentlewoman and 41 more...
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theinterlocutor's Words
interlocutor, schoenfraun, zesty, humility, gyped, capitol, scrabble, frank, adaptation, whale, wolphin, obfuscate and 20 more...
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