FOREMAN meaning: Supervisor in charge of workers

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word foreman:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

foreman: Merriam-Webster
foreman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
foreman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
foreman: Collins English Dictionary
foreman: Vocabulary.com
Foreman, foreman: Wordnik
foreman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Foreman, foreman: Wiktionary
foreman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
foreman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
foreman: Infoplease Dictionary
foreman: Dictionary.com
foreman: Online Etymology Dictionary
foreman: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Foreman (software), Foreman (surname), Foreman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Foreman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
foreman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
foreman: Rhymezone
Foreman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
foreman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
foreman: FreeDictionary.org
foreman: Mnemonic Dictionary
foreman: TheFreeDictionary.com
foreman: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
foreman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (7 matching dictionaries)

foreman: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
foreman: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

foreman: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

foreman, foreman: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
foreman: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (management) The leader of a work crew.
▸ noun:  (law) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.
▸ noun:  (US, historical) A slave assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands.
▸ noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for someone who was the manager of a farm.
▸ noun:  A community near Prince George, Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, British Columbia, Canada.
▸ noun:  A small city in Little River County, Arkansas, United States.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States.

Similar:

honcho, chief, boss, gaffer, fore-overman, leadman, chargehand, yardsman, mandor, captain, more...

Types:

supervisor, manager, boss, director, chief, overseer, more...

Phrases:

George Foreman, assistant foreman, richard foreman, Percy Foreman, foreman george, more...

Adjectives:

general, assistant, new, old, good, white, young, retired, former, sub, competent

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