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US
/ˈfɔɹmən/
]
[ UK /fˈɔːmən/ ]
[ UK /fˈɔːmən/ ]
NOUN
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a person who exercises control over workers
if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman - a man who is foreperson of a jury
How To Use foreman In A Sentence
- A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman.
- Five times he was selected as jury foreman. Times, Sunday Times
- If the job of the information architect is seen as corresponding with that of a structural architect, then the designer must be seen as an amalgam of superintendent, and foreman.
- FOREMAN: The governor is saying no to money for what she calls expanding unemployment benefits, immunization, senior care and more, including $171 million for education, which could include new and expanded programs she says the state will not be able to pay for when the stimulus money runs out. CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2009
- He completed his training in 1855 on the Great Northern Railway at Peterborough and became locomotive shed foreman.
- Foreman was thought to be slow and ponderous heading into his title fight with Frazier.
- The film was made under the auspices of the British Film Institute's Production Board, on which I served in the 1960s and 70s alongside, among others, Karel Reisz, Carl Foreman and the eminent documentarist Basil Wright. Britain's best film directors show some early promise
- No way anybody but Foreman, his handlers, and Cosell thought Foreman could win, let alone actually pull it off.
- Shipman stared straight ahead as the foreman of the jury read out the verdict tothe packed courtroom.
- Calvocoressi employs the intercutting between Yuri Foreman and her own vulnerable self in a briefer version of the same strategy. S.X. Rosenstock: Women Writers: The Essay Gets Up Close and Personal