Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man who serves as the leader of a work crew, as in a factory.
- n. A man who chairs and speaks for a jury.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The first or chief man, or leader; one who is appointed to preside over a number of others.
- n. Specifically— The chief man of a jury, who acts as the spokesman.
- n. The chief or superintendent of a set of operatives or work-people employed in a shop or on work of any kind; an overseer of work: as, the foreman of a composing-room in a printing-office.
- n. An ancestor.
- To direct or oversee as a foreman.
Wiktionary
- n. management The leader of a work crew.
- n. law The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.
- n. historical, US A black (slave) assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who exercises control over workers
- n. a man who is foreperson of a jury
Examples
“They are men usually employed at the public works, and their foreman is a man of great ability and energy, so that after five days 'work a neat erection stands a little way to the left of our house.”
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
“ Even when he calls the foreman names and walks off the job, they always take him back because he will go where no one else will.”
“The crew's foreman is a player recovering from drug addiction after having been suspended from baseball — Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton.”
Shark sighting likely gives ABC a boost in British Open ratings
“When I asked about why there were so few workers, A CVA official showing us the farm explained that the idea is to create primary production units where there is no organized peasant group and he called the foreman to attention ordering an end to domino sessions and strict compliance with the agreed timetable.”
Venezuela's Agrarian Reform in Action - INTI vs. Sigala in Barquisimeto
“Juror #12 and foreman is the actual perpetrator of the crime you stand accused of and isn't in the mood to confess.”
“When they were up and going strong, he called his foreman and gave an order that made the foreman think that David Burpee had gone crazy.”
“Either I knock off and eat," said Astro confidently, "or I call the foreman and you talk to Lactu.”
“I called the foreman, and said, "Mr. Chapin, please to set this up and pull half-a-dozen proofs.”
“It was reported and repeated and printed and everybody heard it, saw and I recorded it and I’ll make you all a tape and send it to you, a foreman from the mine made two cell phone calls to his wife and to a friend inside the church and that did it.”
“The following morning she called the foreman to one side and said, “I’m really pleased with the way the front lawn was left last night; it is nice and clean and does not offend the neighbors.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foreman’.
-
POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
-
Unneutered
These politically incorrect words for people contain the element 'man', 'son', or 'boy'.
parson, person, layman, businessman, clergyman, chairman, cameraman, craftsman, craftsmanship, fireman, fisherman, gunman and 50 more...
-
big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
-
Fore!
That great old English prefix, quaint almost by default!
foredoom, forename, foretoken, foremast, forebear, foresee, forecastle, forestay, foreskin, foretell, foreshadow, foreclose and 79 more...
-
Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
-
Inside a cartoonist’s world - Liza Do...
foreman, grocery store, bagger, punch line, relate, relevant, relevance
-
heart of darkness
yawl, sea-reach, offing, barge, sprit, estuary, yarn, aft, mizzenmast, placid, gauzy, diaphanous and 141 more...
-
Take Me To Your Whosit
About leaders, particularly the authority-figure at the top of the tree.
leader, chief, boss, cap'n, executive, president, head, tsar, alpha male, alpha female, conductor, dean and 127 more...
-
Prosie: The Launch of the Mauretania ...
by John Maxtone-Graham. Tons of interesting-sounding words, half of which I cannot comprehend on their own, but which together conjure an unmistakable image of naval architecture and shipyard activ...
keel, hull, admiralty, moulding loft, frame-bender, berth, stern, shell plating, tons, mill, fitted, rivet marks and 132 more...
-
The Doctor... Doctor who?
"Just the Doctor."
(My attempt at a Doctor Who list, as requested by plethora.)doctor, master, companion, time lord, tardis, dalek, cyberman, brilliant, fantastic, jelly baby, human, alien and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for foreman.
plethora Prompted the first use of the phrase Doctor who? When Susan's teachers - Ian and Barbara - meet the Doctor, Ian calls him Doctor Foreman and he says 'Hmm? What's that? Doctor who?" Sep 9, 2008
lampbane The surname assumed by the Doctor's granddaughter Susan, taken from the owner of the junkyard where they had parked the TARDIS while Susan attended school (Doctor Who). Sep 9, 2008