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foreman

/fawr-muhn, fohr-/US // ˈfɔr mən, ˈfoʊr- //UK // (ˈfɔːmən) //

工头,领班,工长,管工

Related Words

superintendent监督员,警司,警司大人,学监supervisor监督员,监管人,监督者,主管head头,头部,头颅,头头honcho老板,老板娘,高级职员,高级主管pusher推杆,推进器,推手,推进者executive行政,执行,行政人员,行政部门boss老板,老板娘manager经理,经理人,管理人,管理者overseer监工,监督者,监管人,监管者taskmaster任务主管,任务负责人,任务执行人,任务经理slave driver从属驱动器,从属驱动,从属驱动程序,从属司机straw boss稻草人,稻草人老板,稻草老板,草根老板pit boss坑主,坑老板,坑口老板,坑道长

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fore·men.

    • : a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
    • : the member of a jury selected to preside over and speak for all the jurors on the panel.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounoverseer
Synonyms
superintendent监督员,警司,警司大人,学监supervisor监督员,监管人,监督者,主管boss老板,老板娘executive行政,执行,行政人员,行政部门head头,头部,头颅,头头honcho老板,老板娘,高级职员,高级主管manager经理,经理人,管理人,管理者overseer监工,监督者,监管人,监管者pusher推杆,推进器,推手,推进者taskmaster任务主管,任务负责人,任务执行人,任务经理big brother大哥,大哥大,大兄弟,大佬boss man老板娘,老板人,老大爷,老大哥head honcho首长,首领,头儿,老板head man头人,头儿,负责人,头目pit boss坑主,坑老板,坑口老板,坑道长slave driver从属驱动器,从属驱动,从属驱动程序,从属司机straw boss稻草人,稻草人老板,稻草老板,草根老板

Examples

  • Rob Marchesano, a construction foreman, was working at a site at La Guardia Street and West Third.

  • His position as foreman of a company of perhaps a hundred rough and ready young men was not without its influence.

  • Corrections officers are the foremen, and they motivate with threats of discipline.

  • The point is, the real expert is not always the foreman or the team lead, the prestigious surgeon or the person with the broad, big-picture view.

  • In the end, after leaving university, he brought his efficiency and leadership skills straight to TfL, working as a tube-station foreman.

  • A May 2014 Slate article by Sam Kean details the tragic changes he suffered “from a virtuous foreman to a sociopathic drifter.”

  • Then going to my seat and seeing Jack and John Foreman and seeing them both very moved.

  • You got back-cover blurbs on your new book from James McPherson, Amanda Foreman, and Doris Kearns Goodwin.

  • One was Joe Bamberger, the foreman of the composing room, and the other was Joe Callahan, my assistant as city editor.

  • No world champion other than George Foreman had fought to defend his title when over the age of 40.

  • The foreman's immense voice, explaining machines and tools, caused physical vibrations in her.

  • She was in a dream of oily odours and monstrous iron constructions, dominated by the grand foreman: and Edwin was in the dream.

  • In his old age he had married the eighteen-year-old daughter of M. Ougby, his late foreman.

  • He had sent his most trusted foreman to his own beautiful home, to superintend matters there.

  • He was sent to Paris where, under Leclercq, he learned the printer's trade and finally became a foreman.

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