LEADMAN Synonyms: 70 Similar and Opposite Words

leadman

noun

Definition of leadman

as in supervisor

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Recent Examples of leadman Osorio joined the company in 2011 and has worked as an apprentice carpenter, carpenter, leadman, foreman, and assistant superintendent. — Cindy Kent, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 May 2017

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Noun

Her Bojangles supervisor then removed her from the schedule and locked her out of the company system.

— Julia Coin July 10, Charlotte Observer, 10 July 2026
Local 42, which represents most fire department employees, argued the jobs were not supervisory positions and therefore belonged in its bargaining unit rather than the supervisors’ union.

— Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026

Definition of supervisor

Noun

Kenneth Malin, the West Cedar Creek MUD’s general manager, did not respond to a message requesting comment on the district’s discussions with Diode.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2026
England manager Graham Taylor’s standing with the English media and public never recovered.

— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 11 July 2026

Definition of manager

Noun

Hauser played hardened ranch foreman Rip Wheeler on the Paramount Network series that ran from 2018 to 2024.

— Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2026
Beth, the daughter of the late John Dutton (Kevin Costner), and Rip, the Dutton ranch’s longtime foreman and fixer, have become one of TV's most beloved and volatile couples.

— Deirdre Durkan, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026

Definition of foreman

Noun

Shaw, a conservative activist who is president of the Chino Valley Unified School District board, pointed out in an X post that voters had previously rejected four attempts to reshape the superintendent’s office.

— Lia Russell July 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
Carpenter was previously superintendent of the Hickman Mills School District from 2013-2017, then led the Lee’s Summit School District from 2017-2019 and briefly lived in Georgia before returning to the South Kansas City district.

— Ilana Arougheti July 10, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026

Definition of superintendent

Noun

Robert Fuller, a principal at Gensler working on the Pfizer building conversion, compared the project to surgery in an interview with Bloomberg last year.

— Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
Annemarie Cortez, the principal at an elementary school in Corona, California, told me that many administrators are instructing teachers not to assign full books; they’re supposed to be running discrete reading drills with short excerpts.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of principal

Noun

Jessie Gaynor, an author and LitHub editor, remembers one impactful scene in the tobacco field when an overseer forced Addy to eat a worm.

— Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 July 2026
The whole thing is connected wirelessly to a simple controller, which the human overseer uses to dictate the roach’s movement.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 1 July 2026

Definition of overseer

Noun

Like Sir Richard Branson himself, Virgin lets the hair grow long and undoes a few buttons while still making savvy business decisions, like a boss.

— JP Brammer, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2026
My last bosses had created a toxic work environment in which people hesitated to speak up, question authority, or make mistakes.

— Leslie Friday, CNBC, 10 July 2026

Definition of boss

Noun

France took the lead with a solo try from Ntamack, who ran down the short side from about 22-meters out, dummied, palmed off a defender and crashed over in a tackle in the 52nd, and conversion from skipper Maxime Lucu.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
Months after his sudden departure, the former Red Sox skipper followed through on a charitable commitment tied to one of Boston's biggest offensive milestones.

— Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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