A member of a work gang who supervises the other workers.
Synonyms
Examples for "straw boss "
Examples for "straw boss "
1 Then the louder tones of a straw boss called him back:
2 The straw boss is responsible for the workmen under him.
3 The picker-thepimp-was called the straw boss .
4 By 1933, the "children," the workers, ate-thatis, earned-onlyif they could survive the shape-up, the speed-up, and the straw boss .
5 The foreigners, generally speaking, are content to stay as straw bosses .
1 I am assistant foreman , soon I'll know enough to get other jobs.
2 He was assistant foreman of the crew my brother Joey worked on.
3 The Jam-wagon, too, we had employed as a sort of assistant foreman .
4 Used to be assistant foreman at the dairy back in 'fifty-eight?
5 We have two laying houses, each manned by an assistant foreman and ten workers in shifts.
6 I'm the assistant foreman at the TBar7 Ranch.
7 But I really did think that in three more years I'd be an assistant foreman on the loadin' dock.
8 He's the assistant foreman at a ranch here, and he has three kids and another one on the way.
9 Howard explained that Culley had been an assistant foreman in Park Grounds Maintenance before being sent away for manslaughter seven years earlier.
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This collocation consists of: Translations for assistant foreman