Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The chair and spokesperson for a jury.
- noun The leader of a work crew, as in a factory.
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- noun A
foreman orforewoman .
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- noun the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf
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Examples
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And you spoke about the fact that the jury foreperson is Hispanic.
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We also have heard from very reliable sources around the courthouse that juror number five, the doctor-lawyer, may very well be the foreperson, which is what we expected.
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The foreperson was a competent, extremely well organized young African-American woman, a young professional or junior executive.
American Thinker 2009
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They have to go select their foreperson, figure out their plan of attack here, and different juries do it different ways, said Livingston, of Chicago-based ZMF Consulting.
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Several years ago my mom was the foreperson on a jury hearing a retrial granted on appeal of a rape conviction.
Discourse.net: It Takes $1 Million to Free an Innocent Man 2009
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The decision was "very difficult," said Susan Kohlmeyer , the jury foreperson, but she said she was convinced there was a "lot of corruption" in the system.
'Guilty' for Expert Consultant Chad Bray 2011
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The decision was "very difficult," said Susan Kohlmeyer , the jury foreperson, but she said she was convinced there was a "lot of corruption" in the system.
'Guilty' for Expert Consultant Chad Bray 2011
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The jurors most likely spent Monday choosing a foreperson and figuring out how to sift through 35 days of testimony and closing arguments, legal experts say.
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At the end of the closing arguments, the jury briefly began deliberations, elected a foreperson, and went home.
Terra Firma Case Goes to Jury Randall Smith 2010
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The decision was "very difficult," said Susan Kohlmeyer , the jury foreperson, but she said she was convinced there was a "lot of corruption" in the system.
'Guilty' for Expert Consultant Chad Bray 2011
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