noun
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a person or thing that does something or acts in a specified manner
a doer of good
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an active or energetic person
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a thriving animal, esp a horse
Etymology
Origin of doer
Example Sentences
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In one, Grimes offered to help Musk get $5 billion in funding from then-cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, whom he described as an “Ultra genius and doer builder like your formula.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
“That was instilled in me, because I don’t like to work for anybody else. I’m more of a doer than a listener.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023
It’s like, hey buddy, turns out you are the doer.
From Slate • Jun. 28, 2023
They seek to comfort her, sick at heart as she is, by diverting the blame from her who was forced to the doer of the wrong.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
And they distinguish both of these from semantic categories and roles like action, physical object, possessor, doer, and done-to, which refer to what the referents of the words are doing in the world.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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