foreman
noun
a person in charge of a particular department, group of workers, etc., as in a factory or the like.
foremanship
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a word derived from
foreman.
Example Sentences
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On the strength of this list, the September grand jury, under the foremanship of Vice President Gabriel Flournoy Slaughter of American Steel Foundries, had resurrected an ancient vagrancy law.
From Time Magazine Archive
Functional Foremanship allows many more people, to become foremen, and to develop the will and judgment which foremanship implies.
From The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste by Lillian Moller Gilbreth
There is one rather natural difficulty which arises when the functional foremanship is first introduced.
From Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor
He sat down on the bunk where she had lain, and speedily forgot the girl and the incident in facing the problem of that foremanship.
From The Uphill Climb by B. M. Bower
You shall have a show in the business and the foremanship, besides.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
