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語源

Borrowed from Spanish capataz.

名詞

capataz (plural capataces)

1. boss, foreman, overseer
   • 1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance‎:

     “My gentle spirit is roused to the accomplishment of great things. I feel in me a valiance, an inspiration. I am no vulgar seller of aguardiente, like Domingo. I was born to be the capataz of the Lugarenos.”

   • 1922, Joseph Hergesheimer, Cytherea‎:

     The capataz of the batey gang, a tall flushed Jamaican negro, passed on a cantering white pony.