foreman

See also: Foreman

English

foreman (plural foremen)

(management) The leader of a work crew.
(law) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.
(US, historical) A slave assistant to the white overseer who managed field hands.

leader of a work crew

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Apache:
Western Apache: nantʼán
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: бригадир (bg) m (brigadir), майстор (bg) m (majstor)
Catalan: capatàs (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 工头 (zh), 領班／领班 (zh) (lǐngbān)
Czech: předák m
Danish: formand c, værkfører c
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: töödejuhataja
Faroese: formaður m
Finnish: työnjohtaja (fi)
French: chef (fr) m, chef d'équipe m, contremaître (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Vorarbeiter (de) m, Polier (de) m
Greek: εργοδηγός (el) m or f (ergodigós)
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: művezető (hu)
Irish: maor m
Italian: (at a construction site) caposquadra, capoccia m
Japanese: 工場長
Khmer: មេការ (mee kaa)
Macedonian: палир m (palir)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: formann (no) m, arbeidsformann m

Nynorsk: formann m, arbeidsformann m
Persian: سرکارگر‎ (fa) (sarkârgar)
Polish: majster (pl) m, kierownik budowy m
Portuguese: capataz (pt)
Romanian: maistru (ro) m
Russian: ма́стер (ru) m (máster), бригади́р (ru) m (brigadír), прора́б (ru) m (proráb) (at a consruction site), штейгер (ru) m (štejger) (at a mine)
Scottish Gaelic: maor m, maor-obrach m
Slovak: predák m
Spanish: capataz (es) m
Swedish: förman (sv) c, lagbas c
Turkish: ustabaşı (tr) sg

member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf

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