doer

Definition

Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.

Etymology

From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English dōere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do + -er.

Example Sentences

• "The doer and the thinker No allowance for the other."
• "Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...]."
• "In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in."

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