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  • noun Plural form of gofer.

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Examples

  • If we are lucky they obtain positions as overpaid Bartelbys and "gofers" in district offices or administrative departments, where they remain until pension time, safely out of range of DOE students they were hired to teach.

    Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011

  • Most know that now is the time to reclaim our country from the bankers, the lobbyists -- and their gofers: the members of the United States Congress and the 50 state legislatures.

    Michael Moore: The Winter of Our Occupation Michael Moore 2011

  • If we are lucky they obtain positions as overpaid Bartelbys and "gofers" in district offices or administrative departments, where they remain until pension time, safely out of range of DOE students they were hired to teach.

    Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011

  • If we are lucky they obtain positions as overpaid Bartelbys and "gofers" in district offices or administrative departments, where they remain until pension time, safely out of range of DOE students they were hired to teach.

    Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011

  • Most know that now is the time to reclaim our country from the bankers, the lobbyists -- and their gofers: the members of the United States Congress and the 50 state legislatures.

    Michael Moore: The Winter of Our Occupation Michael Moore 2011

  • If we are lucky they obtain positions as overpaid Bartelbys and "gofers" in district offices or administrative departments, where they remain until pension time, safely out of range of DOE students they were hired to teach.

    Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011

  • Most know that now is the time to reclaim our country from the bankers, the lobbyists -- and their gofers: the members of the United States Congress and the 50 state legislatures.

    Michael Moore: The Winter of Our Occupation Michael Moore 2011

  • Who will Johnnie Boy pick for a real conservative to win back many gofers.

    Lieberman increases criticism of Barack Obama 2008

  • Cops on Harleys; Secret Service gunboat SUVs; Army aviation overhead butter-knifing through the air, scaring off the news choppers; Agency handlers, gofers, commo experts, and upper-floor reps, the whole train about a mile long, tying up traffic for hours.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Cops on Harleys; Secret Service gunboat SUVs; Army aviation overhead butter-knifing through the air, scaring off the news choppers; Agency handlers, gofers, commo experts, and upper-floor reps, the whole train about a mile long, tying up traffic for hours.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

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