单词 | foreperson |
释义 | forepersonn. A foreman or forewoman (used as a common-gender form). (Not standard.) ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury > foreman or woman foreman1538 chancellor1759 jury chancellor1867 foreperson1973 1973 Yale Rev. Spring 453 The absence of current lexical freaks such as..foreperson. 1975 Amer. Speech 1973 48 158 One of the..reporters began to say something about Sybil and then corrected himself: ‘the jury foreman—I guess we should say foreperson’. 1986 N.Z. Herald 5 Feb. iv. 14 (advt.) Refuse foreperson. Required to supervise the operation of the authority's Greenmount refuse landfill. 1990 Evening Press (Dublin) 10 July 19/1 Building site foreperson with full experience. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1973 |
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