/ fækˈtəʊtəm; NAmE -ˈtoʊ-/ noun
( formal or humorous ) a person employed to do a wide variety of jobs for sb
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WORD ORIGIN
mid 16th cent. (originally in the phrases dominum (or magister) factotum , translating roughly as master of everything , and Johannes factotem John do-it-all or Jack of all trades ): from medieval Latin , from Latin fac! do! (imperative of facere ) + totum the whole thing (neuter of totus ).