assistant foreman

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   a member of a work gang who supervises the other workers

   Synonymsstraw boss

   Broaderforeman

Questions about assistant foreman

What does assistant foreman mean?

assistant foreman means "a member of a work gang who supervises the other workers".

What is another word for assistant foreman?

Close synonyms include straw boss. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is assistant foreman a common word?

assistant foreman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.