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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foreman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the foreman of the jury (=the jury's leader, who announces its decision)
▪ The foreman of the jury announced a guilty verdict.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
jury
▪ He slumped forward in his seat, supporting his arms on his knees, when the jury foreman announced the verdict.
▪ Once the bailiff had locked the door, the jury foreman called for all the evidence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Anton hated the foreman, who was never satisfied with anyone's work.
▪ He spoke as though he were a rich landowner instead of just the foreman of a modest building firm.
▪ Her father is a retired mining foreman.
▪ Time taken in unloading should be recorded by the foreman and paid at the agreed rate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After Taylor was named gang boss and foreman, shop tensions might have dissipated in any number of ways.
▪ He became a site foreman, a negotiator.
▪ He had worked his way up from foreman in underground heavy engineering projects to resident engineer.
▪ He slumped forward in his seat, supporting his arms on his knees, when the jury foreman announced the verdict.
▪ He was scarcely the first foreman to come along intent on securing efficiencies; that was always part of the job.
▪ Once the bailiff had locked the door, the jury foreman called for all the evidence.
▪ Problems may arise where the foreman is bribed or negligent and excessive hours are claimed by the sub-contractor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foreman

Foreman \Fore"man\, n.; pl. Foremen. The first or chief man; as:

  1. The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.

  2. The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foreman

early 13c., "a leader," from fore- + man (n.). From 1530s as "principal juror;" 1570s in the sense of "principal workman." Similar formation in Dutch voorman, German Vormann, Danish formand. Also in 17c., a slang word for "penis." Fem. form forewoman is from 1709, originally of a jury; forelady is from 1867 in reference to juries, 1888 of shops, American English.

Wiktionary
foreman

n. 1 (context management English) The leader of a work crew. 2 (context legal English) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf. 3 (context historical US during the era of slavery English) A black (slave) assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands.

WordNet
foreman

  1. n. a person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" [syn: chief, gaffer, honcho, boss]

  2. a man who is foreperson of a jury

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Gazetteer
Foreman, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000): 1125
Housing Units (2000): 566
Land area (2000): 1.960876 sq. miles (5.078645 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.010488 sq. miles (0.027163 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.971364 sq. miles (5.105808 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24250
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 33.721213 N, 94.396888 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71836
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Foreman, AR
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Wikipedia
Foreman

A foreman, forewoman or foreperson is a supervisor, often in a manual trade or industry.

Foreman may specifically refer to:

  • Construction foreman, the worker or tradesman who is in charge of a construction crew
  • Shop foreman or plant foreman, the frontline supervisor in a skilled trade, manufacturing or production operation
  • Ranch foreman, the manager of a ranch, overseeing all aspects of the operation
  • Foreman of Signals, a highly qualified senior non-commissioned signal equipment manager and engineer in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals
  • Jury foreman, a head juror
  • Foreman (surname)
  • Foreman, Arkansas, a city in Little River County, Arkansas, United States
  • USS Foreman (DE-633), a Buckley class destroyer escort of the United States Navy
  • Foreman (software), a systems management software application
Foreman (surname)

Foreman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Al Foreman (1904-1954), English/Canadian boxer of the 1910s, '20s and '30s
  • Carl Foreman, screenwriter and film producer
  • Chris Foreman, guitarist of the band Madness
  • Chuck Foreman, former NFL running back
  • Dave Foreman (born 1947), American environmentalist
  • Eric Foreman, fictional character in the TV show House
  • Deborah Foreman (born 1962), American actress
  • Freeda Foreman (born 1976), American boxer, daughter of former world Heavyweight champion George Foreman
  • George Foreman (born 1949), two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
  • Gordy Foreman, drummer of the band Frenzal Rhomb
  • Hooks Foreman (1895–1940), Negro league baseball player
  • Jack Foreman Mantle (1917–1940), English recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Jay Foreman (businessman), American businessman
  • Jay Foreman (American football) (born 1976), football player
  • Jay Foreman (comedian) (born 1984), British comedian
  • Jon Foreman, lead singer and guitarist of the band Switchfoot, brother of Tim
  • Joseph Foreman, real name of rapper Afroman
  • Kevin Foreman, the general manager of RealNetworks
  • Matthew Foreman (born 1957), mathematician at University of California, Irvine
  • Richard Foreman (born 1937), American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer
  • Susan Foreman, fictional character in the Doctor Who series
  • Tim Foreman, bassist of the band Switchfoot, brother of Jon
  • Tom Foreman, Emmy Award winning reporter for CNN in the United States
  • William Foreman, early American military officer
  • Yuri Foreman (born 1980), Israeli boxer
Foreman (software)

Foreman (also known as The Foreman) is an open source complete life cycle systems management tool for provisioning, configuring and monitoring of physical and virtual servers. Foreman has deep integration to configuration management software, with Puppet, Chef, Salt and other solutions through plugins, which allows users to automate repetitive tasks, deploy applications, and manage change to deployed servers.

Foreman provides provisioning on bare-metal (through managed DHCP, DNS, TFTP, and PXE-based unattended installations), virtualization and cloud. Foreman provides comprehensive, auditable interaction facilities including a web frontend, a command line interface, and a robust REST API.

Usage examples of "foreman".

Uncle Lance asked our foreman for his list of outside brands, explaining that these men wished to look them over.

Tartars and Calmucks usually as rank and file, the Russians and other Europeans as overseers, foremen, and skilled labourers.

October of 1894 Daniel McCone, the founder and owner of the Cuyahoga Bridge and Iron Company, then the largest single employer in Cleveland, Ohio, informed his factory workers through their foremen that they were to accept a 10 percent cut in pay.

She remembered the digs around Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, in the Indus Valley, and the careful, patient native laborersthe painstaking foremen, the pickmen and spademen, the long files of basketmen carrying away the earth.

I can get a good foreman that knows all about hops just now, and if the deal pays--well, I want to send Sid to a seminary up in San Francisco.

Paul had forged them during the passage, though he could have gotten real ones from Kingmaker himself or through Foreman.

All were assembled, and all were on their feet now: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Pottscamp, Northprophet, Dobowski, Quickcrafter, Haddad, Chezem, Treva, Goldgopher, Chu, Sykes, Fabelo, Dulldoggle, Potter, Landmaster, Salver, Stoimenof, all the high dukes of Astrobe, half a dozen former world presidents, the tall scientists and mind-men, the world designers.

The Big Ones had Thomas up on the carpet the next morning: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Chezem, Pottseamp, Wot-tle, Northprophet.

When I repeated what I had earlier told Uncle Jack, that I did not have the slightest idea what arrangements he was talking about, Foreman walked me, with lawyerlike precision, through a series of possibilities: Were there any special financial arrangements?

Mamma and papa, of course, and Billy, the stableman, and Montalegre, the Portugee foreman, and the Chinese cook, even, and Mr.

Lone Morgan, riding early to the Sawtooth to see the foreman about getting a man for a few days to help replace a bridge carried fifty yards downstream by a local cloudburst, would not have changed places with a millionaire.

They parked up in the Rue Sherif and aTaureg foreman in a striped jellaba walked round to the back where he hammered on the door until Raf appeared, bleary-eyed and squinting.

The foreman had told him to make sure there were no strays left out in the hills northeast of camp some thirty miles, and it had been easy to get away.

We had taken the long route-the foreman had insisted that we see the Submicron Fractionating Assembly.

He struck up an acquaintanceship with the foreman of the toolroom, a man called John Franklin who was about 50 years of age.