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What is a foreman?

What is a foreman? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (management) The leader of a work crew.
  2. (law) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.
  3. (historical, US, during the era of slavery) A black (slave) assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands.
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There was a Bushman village near Roger's camp and I walked there with Tumalano, his Tswana foreman, who spoke their language as well as English.
His career started as an apprentice joiner finishing his apprenticeship and then progressing to general foreman.
A factory foreman embarks on a dangerous mission to occupied France to retrieve important machinery.
A certain number of foreman artificers, electricians, blacksmiths etc, are also required for service with the army.
As the verdicts were read by the jury foreman some of the defendants smiled, smirked and even giggled.
For a while I also shared a yard with a British chap named Roy who worked as a foreman on the project.

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