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forewoman

[ fawr-woom-uhn, fohr- ]

noun

, plural fore·wom·en.
  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 Note

See -woman.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of forewoman1

First recorded in 1700–10; fore- + woman
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Example Sentences

She was by them considered a good forewoman, kind, and ready to help a girl if a girl tried to earn more money.

The sempstresses-room looks exactly like a large milliner's shop, and here we found a forewoman with eighteen assistants at work.

She writes that she has found money to set up a dressmaking establishment, and that she is relying upon me to be her forewoman.

It paused on the correspondence room and its attractive forewoman.

The forewoman sent down word that No. 105 had not rung up that morning, and that I could have her key.

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