mandor

mandor (plural mandors)

1. (historical) A chief worker or a supervisor, who oversees the work of other workers.
2. (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia) A workman who oversees others in a factory or a plantation, typically an oil palm or rubber estate.

• Damron, Dorman, Madron, Mardon, Rodman, modRNA, ram-don, random, rodman

Unknown, possibly from Portuguese mandador, mando (“command, order”), or mandar (“to order, command”), from Latin mandāre, present active indicative of mandō (“order, commission”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈman.dɔr]
• Hyphenation: man‧dor

mandor (plural mandor-mandor)

1. foreman, overseer, supervisor
2. driver

• mandur

• → Chinese: 蠻律 / 蛮律 (mánlǜ)
• → English: mandor

• “mandor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

mandor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of mandō