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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Shukhov had no dealings with the camp commandant or the P.P.D., with foremen or engineers—that was the squad leader's job: he'd protect him with his own chest of steel.†
Der, too, was there, a convict himself but, a foreman, the swine, who treated his fellow prisoners worse than dogs.†
With the foremen.†
Shukhov was laying his third row (Kilgas too was on his third), when up the ramp came yet another snoop, another chief—building-foreman Der.†
Listen to what a foreman has to tell you,
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foreman = a person who is in charge of other workers
If either the superintendent or one of the foremen was standing there, he'd order the prisoners to throw down their firewood (millions of rubles had gone up in smoke, yet there they were thinking they'd make up the losses with kindling).†
None of the foremen was in sight, nor the superintendent, so the prisoners kept their firewood.†

Definitions:

(1) (foreman)
a person chosen to lead and speak for a group, especially at work or in a courtroom

At work, a foreman is the worker who supervises and directs other workers, often in factories, workshops, or on construction sites. In a court case, the foreman is the juror selected to lead the jury and announce its decision.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)