Foreman
['fɔːmən] or ['fɔrmən]
Definition
(noun.) a person who exercises control over workers; 'if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman'.
(noun.) a man who is foreperson of a jury.
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Definition
(n.) The first or chief man
(n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
(n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Presiding officer (of a jury).[2]. Overseer, superintendent, BOSS, chief workman, master workman.
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Definition
n. the first or chief man one appointed to preside over or act as spokesman for others: an overseer:—pl. Fore′men.
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Examples
- The furnace foreman is notified by the operator as to the temperature by means of small colored electric lights, located above the furnace. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Bar, who felt that he had got all the rest of the jury and must now lay hold of the Foreman, soon came sidling up, double eye-glass in hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I'll tell him that, said Mr. Yorke, when his foreman mentioned the rumour; and if _that_ does not bring him home full gallop, nothing will. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Printers get six dollars and a half a month, but I have heard of a foreman who gets thirteen. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Some directions necessary to be given to her foreman, John, delayed her behind her cousins as they neared Fieldhead on their return. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As he passed out, the jury, who had turned back and paused a moment, spoke, through their foreman. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- As business increased he put on a night force, and was his own foreman on both shifts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A foreman-representative of the dust contractors, purchasers of the Mounds, had worn Mr Wegg down to skin and bone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- My wife was a foreman's daughter, and plainly brought up. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We had a hand-laborer foreman--'Big Jim'--a very powerful Irishman, who could lift above half a ton. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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