foreman
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈfɔːr.mən/
:
capataz
- And within another two years, I was a foreman for a construction company.
- construction foreman
- work with a foreman
- ranch foreman
So you had tons of white foreman all around and they would go on up the ladder.
- So you had tons of white foreman all around and they would go on up the ladder.
- So I I've only met my mom's father one time, and he was the foreman of the ironworkers union that built the World Trade Center.
- In this case, the Superior Steel Corporation determined to replace Langer, the plaintiff, as foreman of one of its departments.
- But then in that same chapter in this engagement, Ed McCarthy, the shop foreman, suggests something quite interesting.
- I was a foreman in the tyre making department on the engineering side.
- I have time to work on my monograph about Balzac, and my foreman is just as much interested in his espaliade pear trees as I am in Balzac.
- You're the captain, you're the master, you're the foreman, you're the general, you're the head.
- I mean the Irish foreman, the Irish president said that one of the Irish captives was lost and then found.
Examples
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You're looking at the new foreman.
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At the plant entrance gate, Jerry, the foreman, sat waiting in his truck.
Fiction book (1990) -
I was a foreman in the tyre making department on the engineering side.
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I'd like to speak with your foreman, please.
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During Soviet times, my husband, Vladimir, worked as a production foreman at a factory.
Academic text (1998) -
All right, you're the foreman.
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He's foreman of the Malaysian plant.
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"Hey, d'ya wanna go out in the field?" Jimbo, the shop foreman, asked.
Fiction book (1992) -
Patricia's husband, Billy Carmody, was foreman of all the bricklayers working on the Cathedral.
Fiction book (1991) -
As the foreman, he was responsible for ensuring the project stayed on schedule.
Synonyms
∞
1.9
A person who leads a group or community
∞
1.0
A person in charge of a group or workers
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2.8
A person who watches workers and helps them do their jobs correctly
39
3.7
A person who directs people and keeps order at an event
24
4.8
A person who watches and directs workers at places like a factory or construction site
20
8.9
A person in charge of a team or project
1
8.1
A person in charge of workers on a work site
1
9.5
A person who manages trains and cargo in a rail yard
1
4.2
A person who leads the serving staff and seats customers in a restaurant
1
4.0
A person who leads a group at work and gives tasks
1
6.2
A woman who leads workers at a factory or construction site
1
9.1
A person who leads a small group of manual workers on a railway or construction site
A person in charge of workers in a mine or factory
A person who manages and directs workers
A person who manages and supervises work in a train yard
A worker who leads other workers but has little power
Compounds
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foreman comes from fore- meaning 'in front' and man meaning 'person', like in forehead where fore- means the front. So a foreman is the person at the front who leads and watches the workers.