Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who does something.
- noun A particularly active, energetic person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who does something; one who performs or executes; an efficient actor or agent.
- noun Specifically In Scots law, an agent or attorney.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who does; one who performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
- noun (Scots Law) An agent or attorney; a factor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
does ,performs , orexecutes ; an active person, anagent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who acts and gets things done
Etymologies
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Examples
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Doubtless Jelchs will make outcry when the hand of the evil-doer is nigh him.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Think Progress » In response to increasingly scathing criticism 2005
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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.
Think Progress » Cheney: If U.S. Troops Come Home, Osama Bin Laden Will Rule Iraq 2005
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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.
Think Progress » DeLay Will Prove His Conspiracy Theories “When It’s Timely” 2005
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Doubtless Jelchs will make outcry when the hand of the evil-doer is nigh him.
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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 2009
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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 2009
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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 2009
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