"foreperson" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: forepersons [plural], forepeople [plural]
Etymology: From fore- + person. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|fore|person}} fore- + person Head templates: {{en-noun|s|forepeople}} foreperson (plural forepersons or forepeople)
  1. (management) A leader of a work crew. Categories (topical): Management Translations (leader of a work crew): forperson [common-gender] (Danish), Vorarbeiter [masculine] (German), Vorarbeiterin [masculine] (German), Polier [masculine] (German), Polierin [feminine] (German), formann [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), forkvinne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), arbeidsformann [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), arbeidsforkvinne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), formann [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), forkvinne [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), arbeidsformann [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), arbeidsforkvinne [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    Sense id: en-foreperson-en-noun-gra4kskM Topics: management Disambiguation of 'leader of a work crew': 100 0 0
  2. (law) The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf. Categories (topical): Law Translations (member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf): Sprecher der Geschworenen [masculine] (German), Sprecherin der Geschworenen [feminine] (German), Vorsitzender und Sprecher der Jury [masculine] (German), Vorsitzende und Sprecherin der Jury [feminine] (German), juryformann [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), juryforkvinne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), juryformann [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), juryforkvinne [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    Sense id: en-foreperson-en-noun-NH4e9jdy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with fore-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 82 15 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with fore-: 17 66 17 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 10 79 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 72 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 90 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 4 77 19 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 9 81 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 7 61 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 2 87 11 Topics: law Disambiguation of 'member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf': 0 99 1
  3. (uncommon) A forefather, predecessor. Tags: uncommon Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-foreperson-en-noun-s~JaveXt Disambiguation of People: 0 24 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: work foreman [management], work foreperson, work forewoman, foreman [law], forewoman, head juror, jury foreman, jury foreperson, jury forewoman, presiding juror

Inflected forms

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        "(uncommon) A forefather, predecessor."
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.