6 uses
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Definition
a person who is in charge of other workers
or:
a juror in a court case who is selected by other jurors to head the jury
or:
a juror in a court case who is selected by other jurors to head the jury
- He's a socialist, the foreman.Chapter 10 (50% in)
- Fact, Mrs. Kennicott, I'll say that far as I can make out, the only people in this man's town that do have any brains—I don't mean ledger-keeping brains or duck-hunting brains or baby-spanking brains, but real imaginative brains—are you and me and Guy Pollock and the foreman at the flour-mill.Chapter 10 (50% in)
- "This foreman and I have some great set-to's.Chapter 10 (51% in)
- "Why, Bea's cousin Tina comes in right along, and the foreman at the mill, and——Oh, we have good times.Chapter 19 (97% in)
- And the mill foreman comes in right along.Chapter 20 (77% in)
- Oh, the mill foreman keeps dropping in, and that Danish shoemaker, and one fellow from Elder's factory, and a few Svenskas, but you know Bea: big good-hearted wench like her wants a lot of folks around—likes to fuss over 'em—never satisfied unless she tiring herself out making coffee for somebody.Chapter 26 (38% in)
There are no more uses of "foreman" in Main Street.
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