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FOREPERSON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does foreperson mean?
• FOREPERSON (noun)
The noun FOREPERSON has 1 sense:
1. the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf
Familiarity information: FOREPERSON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("foreperson" is a kind of...):
juror; juryman; jurywoman (someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foreperson"):
foreman (a man who is foreperson of a jury)
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