Executor vs Doer - What's the difference?
executor | doer |
A person who carries out some task.
(label) Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator.
(obsolete) An executioner.
* 1599 , , I. ii. 203:
Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, page 295:
* 2008 , Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian , 25 Mar 2008:
As nouns the difference between executor and doer
is that executor is a person who carries out some task while doer is serf.As an adjective doer is
servile.executor
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Alternative forms
* executour (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia executor) (en noun)- The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, / Delivering o'er to executors pale / The lazy yawning drone.
doer
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Noun
(en noun)- 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.