forewoman

American  

[fawr-woom-uhn, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌwʊm ən, ˈfoʊr- /

noun

• forewomen
  plural

1. a woman in charge of a particular department or group of workers.

2. a woman on a jury selected to preside over and speak for all the jurors on the panel.

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Gender

See -woman.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• forewomen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of forewoman

First recorded in 1700–10; fore- + woman

Example Sentences

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Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, said in court that the jury forewoman had sent another note, this one complaining to Judge William Sullivan that a juror was refusing to listen to the law on reasonable doubt.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

When Juror No. 5 showed up in a navy blazer, Laurey Trailer, who later became forewoman, got annoyed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

As costume shop forewoman at LACC, McKenna pulled together technically impeccable and historically accurate costumes for everything from Neil Simon’s “Lost in Yonkers” to the midcentury French drama “Cher Antoine.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2025

“It was a difficult case because we all trust law enforcement,” the jury forewoman, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

“You trimmed it!” exclaimed the forewoman, ignoring Patty’s question, and taking up the trimmed hat.

From Patty's Success by Carolyn Wells

He began with closer individual supervision by the forewomen.

From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Walter Dill Scott

She said there were chances to make big wages there, because forewomen and draping hands were wanted more and girls who had anything in them had a better show than in a little place.

From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by John Maurice Miller

Under the deacons are "care-takers," who are the foremen and forewomen in the different pursuits.

From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

They were hand-and-glove with the forewomen, asked them to breakfast at their country houses, knelt to old Spricht as if he were the Pope himself.

From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by A. W. (Arthur Woollgar) Verrall

In every kitchen there is a forewoman cook—there are these forewomen in every department of the work of the women, and they correspond rather to the "noncoms" among the men.

From The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse