foreman
foreman
Definition
fore·man (fôr′mən)
noun pl. -·men-mən
- the chairman and spokesman of a jury
- a person in charge of a department or group of workers in a factory, mill, etc.
Etymology: orig., foremost man, leader
fore′·man·ship′ noun
foreman
Synonyms
foreman
n.
foreman
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- become: On his return he became a supervisory foreman at the King's Cross Goods Yard.
- ask: I asked the foreman: ' Are these men skilled?
- make: On his return to East Tilbury he was made foreman of Department 407 which position he holds at the present time.
- have: I worked with them, and they had an Italian foreman called Carlo.
Adjective modifier
- general: I was young but he took a chance and put me on as general foreman, my father's job.
- new: And we are lucky to have our new foreman in Iain Duncan Smith.
Modifies a noun
- builder: He had asked the foreman builder if he could get me a job, which he did.
- grill: However, give him a george foreman grill and some steak, and he's the master!
Noun used with modifier
- george: With george foreman he won this which is featuring their salsa gets.
- ranch: The film then cuts sharply to a sterile mortuary and the rough face of ranch foreman Pete Perkins ( Tommy Lee Jones ).
- jury: The court clerk will ask the jury foreman for the verdict.
- yard: He was the son of yard foreman W Harvey.
- farm: In 1924, Mr Ivan Palmer, a farm foreman from near Bury St Edmunds, became licensee.
- shop: Calf in the mash house, poet in the kitchens Machine shop foreman in an artists ' studio.
Possessives
- office: A typical example is the foreman's office partitioned out of warehouse or workshop accommodation.
Preposition: in
- charge: Weil's disease G was a foreman in charge of works by the side of a London canal.
Preposition: of
- jury: The jury were kept waiting for a quarter of an hour pending the arrival of the foreman of the jury.
- department: He made further progress during the same year when he was made chief foreman of the assembly departments.
- work: These houses were built by the Lundy Granite Company in the 1860s for the company surgeon, the engineer and the foreman of works.
- gang: He was the foreman of a road gang repairing the footpath outside our house.
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