capataz

[kah-pah-tahth, -tahs, kap-uh-tahz]

noun

Spanish.

plural

capataces 

1. a foreman or supervisor.

Example Sentences

The capataz, or boss of the ranch, agreed.

From New York Times

Tras recaudar fondos de los feligreses, la hermandad establecida en Kendall logró preparar una nueva imagen del Señor de los Milagros – similar a la que se encuentra en la iglesia las Nazarenas, en Lima –, y que el domingo estrenó su recorrido por la parroquia Good Shepherd, destacó Meerweir Valdivia, capataz de la agrupación religiosa.

From Washington Times

It implies, besides, permanent wages at increased rate, without manual work to do, for the capataz only orders.

From Project Gutenberg

The old, the halt and lame, if friends of the capataz, receive the same pay as the young and strong.

From Project Gutenberg

Although all may go forth into the vineyard at the seventh hour, there is yet ground for doubting the substantial justice of the nineteenth-century capataz as there was in olden days of Bible history.

From Project Gutenberg