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.

Gender Note

See -woman.

Word History and Origins

Origin of forewoman¹

First recorded in 1700–10; fore- + woman

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.

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

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

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It paused on the correspondence room and its attractive forewoman.

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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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