assistant foreman
- noun
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ayudante de capataz
- With the foreman absent, the assistant foreman stepped up to lead the construction crew effectively.
Examples
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Lead man, toolmaker, assistant foreman.
Fiction book (1995) -
The workers decided to elect an assistant foreman to help manage their tasks.
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During the meeting, the assistant foreman shared his observations about the team's progress.
Synonyms
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A person who watches and directs workers at places like a factory or construction site
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A person in charge of workers on a work site
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9.1
A person who leads a small group of manual workers on a railway or construction site
A worker who leads other workers but has little power
A person who manages and directs workers
Antonyms
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'assistant' (a person who helps) with 'foreman' (a supervisor), yielding a person who assists the foreman in supervising workers. This occupational compound follows a common, productive pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Assistant foreman comes from the simple idea of a helper next to the boss: an assistant stands beside the foreman to help and watch the workers, and can take charge when the foreman is away. So, the term means 'a person who supports the foreman by supervising other workers'.