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Foreman Common

Origin: Germanic Old English prefix

Foreman has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a person who exercises control over workers

"if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman"

2

a man who is foreperson of a jury

"The construction site foreman was dismissed from his role because he lacked the legal authority to direct a criminal jury during the trial."

3

The leader of a work crew.

"The foreman yelled at us to pick up our pace before we missed the deadline."

Proper Noun
1

An occupational surname, from occupations for someone who was the manager of a farm.

"The genealogist traced their family tree back to an ancestor named Foreman whose name originated as a title for a farm manager centuries ago."

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
supervisor foreperson
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
baas ganger straw boss
Rhyming Words
man aman oman uman iman orman koman maman leman taman liman inman neman goman unman zaman numan raman daman ahman
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