Definition of "foreman" []

• A man who serves as the leader of a work crew, as in a factory. (noun)
• A man who chairs and speaks for a jury. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "They are men usually employed at the public works, and their foreman is a man of great ability and energy, so that after five days 'work a neat erection stands a little way to the left of our house."
• " Even when he calls the foreman names and walks off the job, they always take him back because he will go where no one else will."
• "The crew's foreman is a player recovering from drug addiction after having been suspended from baseball — Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton."