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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
evil
▪ They also created a mythical patron, a just ruler who rewarded the good and punished evil doers by unleashing massive snowstorms.
▪ Three little bug-eyed girls, ready to stop evil-doers in their tracks.
▪ I saw that there were a few patches of shadow around me that could have been crammed with evil doers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The people of our grandparents' generation were doers, not talkers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ They also created a mythical patron, a just ruler who rewarded the good and punished evil doers by unleashing massive snowstorms.
▪ They were both doers, and doers had to get out and do.
▪ You lose the pleasure of being a doer, as you become a manager of a growing organization.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doer

Doer \Do"er\, n. [From Do, v. t. & i.]

  1. One who does; one who performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

    The doers of the law shall be justified. -- Rom. ii. 13.

  2. (Scots Law) An agent or attorney; a factor.
    --Burrill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
doer

c.1300, agent noun from do.

Wiktionary
doer

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

WordNet
doer

n. a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker" [syn: actor, worker]

Usage examples of "doer".

They could see no sign of trouble, but the Birder assured them there were small groups of ill doers lurking just out of sight.

But bycause the name of this boke semeth to the redar to procede of derysion: and by that mean that the substance therof shulde nat be profitable: I wyl aduertise you that this Boke is named the Shyp of foles of the worlde: For this worlde is nought els but a tempestous se in the whiche we dayly wander and are caste in dyuers tribulacions paynes and aduersitees: some by ignoraunce and some by wilfulnes: wherfore suche doers ar worthy to be called foles.

Now, to whose house should these Diabolonian doubters go, but to the house of an old Diabolonian in Mansoul, whose name was Evil-Questioning, a very great enemy he was to Mansoul, and a great doer among the Diabolonians there.

Morris and seven men working with him formed the Preraphaelite Brotherhood and gave the workers and doers of the world an impetus they yet feel.

The front doer banged and from the window she saw Doctor Quimper stride angrily from the house to his car and drive away.

People of the Aca, to be delivered to the five Elders:--it is, that to-morrow the maiden be presented in the temple, when, by the mouth of the Zuhua Kak, of the Virgins of the Flame, the Elders, and the people, penance shall be said before the Symbol of Xibal, Lord of Death, and afterwards supplication beneath the Disc of Life to Him whose raiment is the Sun, and to Viracocha, the Doer, Lord of Dawn, that our nation and our dwelling-place be no more destroyed by the Bursting Fires and Great Waters.

Now, to whose house should these Diabolonian doubters go, but to the house of an old Diabolonian in Mansoul, whose name was Evil-Questioning, a very great enemy he was to Mansoul, and a great doer among the Diabolonians there.

Deare Lady, deedes ought not be scandBy th'authors manhood, nor the doers might,But by their trueth and by the causes right:That same is it, which fought for you this day.

I know of two Evil Doers in Boca Raton who are alone in a magnificent waterfront mansion.

If the judgment was guilty, the makers and doers would push these weapons inward toward the planets.

In the actual offensive, as they performed the Job, they would be aided by makers and doers and robot craft not limited by human physiology.

Or we can sleep and wait for the makers and doers in the pre-birth cloud to send their weapons down.

We pull in the remotes, coast in quietly, release the bombships, pick them up again after they've injected the weapons into Nebuchadnezzar, drop our doers to gather volatiles in the ruins, accelerate outward to Ramses as fast as possible, and execute again.

Three of the ships, upon spreading their mines filled with makers and doers, had produced merely the flowering of immense atmospheric explosions across thousands of kilometers, leaving turbulent scars on the planet's surface.

Suspended in the field, all his body a huge bruise, medical doers like tiny golden worms criss-crossing, touching his bruised flesh, nothing touching him but the golden worms, mouth dry but not parched, top of head burning.