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forewoman

/fawr-woom-uhn, fohr-/US // ˈfɔrˌwʊm ən, ˈfoʊr- //

女工头,工头,领班,女工长

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fore·wom·en.

    • : a woman in charge of a particular department or group of workers.
    • : a woman on a jury selected to preside over and speak for all the jurors on the panel.

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Examples

  • She was by them considered a good forewoman, kind, and ready to help a girl if a girl tried to earn more money.

  • The sempstresses-room looks exactly like a large milliner's shop, and here we found a forewoman with eighteen assistants at work.

  • She writes that she has found money to set up a dressmaking establishment, and that she is relying upon me to be her forewoman.

  • It paused on the correspondence room and its attractive forewoman.

  • The forewoman sent down word that No. 105 had not rung up that morning, and that I could have her key.