foreman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person in charge of a group of workers, especially in a factory or on a building site.

   If you want to leave early, you have to ask the foreman.

2. 2
   noun

   The member of a jury who leads it and speaks for it.

   The jury foreman read out the verdict.

From Middle English foremon, forman. Compare West Frisian foarman, Dutch voorman, German Vormann, Danish formand, Swedish förman, Icelandic formaður. By surface analysis, fore- + man.

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