Starting as a sort of factotum, the clerk progressively climbed the hierarchy through the gradual mastering of the administrative paperwork of the department to which he belonged.
Many a manager must be a general factotum, the buyer and the seller, the director of production and the obtainer of goods.
When a program wants to authenticate to a service, it requests a key from factotum.
He also carried on the business of land surveyor, and was factotum in most of the parochial offices.
He was endowed with the qualitiesdevotion to friends and duty, patriotism, and unswerving integritywhich made him the ideal sounding board and factotum among the prominent politicians of his day.
