foreman
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mən, ˈfoʊr- noun, plural fore·men.
1.
a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
2.
the member of a jury selected to preside over and speak for all the jurors on the panel.
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| —n , pl -men | |
| 1. | Gender-neutral form: supervisor a person, often experienced, who supervises other workmen |
| 2. | law Female equivalent: forewoman the principal juror, who presides at the deliberations of a jury |
| 'foremanship | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
Each crew has to build a structure with the game's wooden blocks, but only the crew's foreman gets to look at the blueprints.
Somehow manage the blog as if you were the foreman of a construction crew.
The foreman, who had hired them for years, said to try again next week.
The programmer issues instructions to the computer in much the same way as the foreman at a building site shouts at his workers.
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