What's the difference between foreman and forewoman?

Foreman


Definition:

  • (n.) The first or chief man
  • (n.) The chief man of a jury, who acts as their speaker.
  • (n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increasing pressures on social care budgets meant DLA was often the only financial support they got, said Esther Foreman, the charity's campaigns and policy manager, and short-term cost savings could have long-term implications for claimants, their families and carers.
  • (2) After 48 h their ovaries were removed and the granulosa cells isolated (Foreman et al.
  • (3) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
  • (4) For seven sweltering rounds, against all prognoses, Ali allowed Foreman, the brutish, one-blow Goliath, actually to punch himself out on his arms, as Ali himself lay on the ropes, head back as if out of a bedroom window to check if the cat was on the roof.
  • (5) My religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Foreman on Muhammad Ali: he was truly beautiful .
  • (6) At 11.35am, within a packed and hushed court 1, Redknapp and his fellow defendant, the former Portsmouth football club owner Milan Mandaric, hugged in the glass-walled dock after the female jury foreman responded with quiet answers of "not guilty" to each count.
  • (7) Ali knocked out Foreman in the eighth round, taking the heavyweight champion title from him.
  • (8) Apart from a small bruise beneath the right eye and some flecks of blood surrounding the iris (which he attributed to Foreman’s thumb), he was unmarked.
  • (9) Muhammad Ali, 'the Greatest', dies aged 74 Read more George Foreman , 67, who was Ali’s opponent in the legendary Rumble in the Jungle fight in 1974, took to Twitter to share his grief.
  • (10) Instead of providing all the robots with a plan of the desired building, and appointing a mechanical foreman to direct them, each is given the same set of rules that tells it when to move itself or a nearby brick.
  • (11) He bent over the set with a hostile concentration when Foreman’s manager, Dick Sadler, came up on the screen.
  • (12) Elizabeth Weise (@eweise) #ellenpao The jury foreman counted wrong on the fourth claim.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Foreman on Muhammad Ali: he was truly beautiful – audio “A part of me slipped away, the greatest piece,’ Foreman wrote.
  • (14) His recruitment agent in Kathmandu, Capital International Manpower, said Shanbu was “over-reacting” and that they sent him on a foreman’s contract because that is the permit that had been supplied by Qatar.
  • (15) So, having rolled away the rock, he hit George Foreman on the head with it.
  • (16) There were a few familiar faces from gangland's past: Freddie "Brown Bread Fred" Foreman and Chris Lambrianou, both of whom were involved with the Krays around the time the robbery took place.
  • (17) Making plays Two weeks ago, Sean Foreman, the president of Sports Reference LLC, the company behind the popular, addictive and wildly useful website baseball-reference.com provided the Guardian with a breakdown of the stat known as WAR , which is "an attempt by the sabermetric baseball community to summarize a player's total contributions to their team in one statistic".
  • (18) Two fights with Sonny Liston, where he proclaimed himself 'The Greatest' and proved he was; three epic wars with Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in 1974's 'Rumble in the Jungle'; dethroning Leon Spinks in 1978 to become heavyweight champion for an unprecedented third time.
  • (19) The high-profile status of the Lawrence killing – its highlighting of racism, incompetence and an apparent vein of corruption in the Metropolitan police, and the way the aftermath of the murder radically changed the face of policing, the law and politics – was reflected within minutes of the jury foreman pronouncing the "guilty" verdicts in court 16.
  • (20) It was a mantra that served him well with the list of distinguished fighters he trained, including George Foreman, who became the oldest ever heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in 1994; his first world champion, Carmen Basilio, who took the welterweight title in 1955; the brilliant Cuban-born Mexican world welterweight champion José Nápoles; and the multiweight world champion Sugar Ray Leonard.

Forewoman


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who is chief; a woman who has charge of the work or workers in a shop or other place; a head woman.

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