Word Finder - boss

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A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

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A person in charge of a business or company.

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Chat turned to whisper when the boss entered the conference room.

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A leader, the head of an organized group or team.

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They named him boss because he had good leadership skills.

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The head of a political party in a given region or district.

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He is the Republican boss in Kentucky.

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A term of address to a man.

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Yes, boss.

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An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.

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Wife.

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There's no olive oil; will sunflower oil do? — I'll have to run that by the boss.

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To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.

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• boss around
• lord over

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Of excellent quality, first-rate.

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That is a boss Zefron poster.

You're not the boss of me.

I hope your boss doesn't get angry.

You're the boss now.

I thought your boss would've airlifted you out.

I don't believe in fraternizing with the boss.

Besides, I'm the boss.

I meant I'm not your boss.

Boss, what is this?

The last thing she wanted to do was get Henry into trouble with his boss.

After all, he was the one who insisted that his mother was her boss.

While he was thrilled that Dean might now be running unopposed, he was positive Lydia had killed her boss.

Before he was a boss.

Hey, boss, the storm blew out our explosives work.

Be my own boss I didn't do too well at school.

Mafia boss sitting in his restaurant with all the women around waiting for his orders.

He seemed very meek at the time, so I thought, " Aha, here's someone I can boss around.

So then they'd do something really naughty to let her know who was boss.

However, she has exhausted the patience of her new boss, and been sacked from the FBI.

My boss has abased me for the last time; I'm quitting tomorrow!

She didn't want to go past her boundaries and be presumptuous, but she really wanted to read the classified file on her boss's desk.

Use your guns when against a group of enemies or a tough boss.

They may boss their brothers or sisters around or lord it over them.

If you honestly think your work plate is too full, be honest with your boss from the start.

If your boss asks you out and you don't want to go, make it a clear "no."

So did this woman who was dating her boss.

I'm in love with a colleague who is currently my boss.

Only one problem, your boss didn't end his bad relationship.

Call your mate's boss to arrange a day off.

A month later he had the good fortune to recover copies of a silver boss, or hilt-top, offered to various museums about 1860, but rejected by them as a meaningless forgery and for a long time lost again to sight.

In the Knox and Boss mills, which are also employed for the amalgamation of silver ores, the grinding is effected between flat horizontal surfaces instead of conical or curved surfaces as in the previously described forms.

If these suppositions have a basis of reality, the proper motion of Algol should be disturbed by a small, but measurable undulation, corresponding to the projection of its orbit upon the sky; and although certainty on the point cannot be attained for some years to come, Lewis Boss regarded the evidence available in 1895 as tending to confirm Dr Chandler's theory.6 Proceedings Amer.

This boss is bounded, except on the south, by the Witwatersrand series, the lower portion of which consists of quartzites and slates and the upper portion of quartzites and conglomerates.

Determining to enter active politics, he gave up his legal studies without qualifying for the bar, and in 1881 was elected to the New York legislature as a regular Republican, although in opposition to the "boss" of the assembly district for which he was a candidate.

In various contests, in which he was almost uniformly victorious, he showed himself to be independent of "boss" control.

In the centre of the shield, in order to protect the hand which held it, was a strong iron boss, some 7 in.

They brought with them iron, which they used for their long swords and for their cutting implements; the costume of both sexes was distinct from that of the Pelasgians; they used round shields with a central boss instead of the 8-shaped or rectangular shields of the latter; they fastened their garments with brooches, and burned their dead instead of burying them as did the Pelasgians.

Cameron was one of the ablest political organizers the United States has ever known, and his long undisputed control of Pennsylvania politics was one of the most striking examples of "boss rule" in American history.

A very extensive determination of proper motions from a comparison of all the principal catalogues has been made by Lewis Boss.

Boss has shown that there is in this region a " moving cluster " of globular form.

After many years of notorious " boss " rule, the city in 1896 elected a reform mayor.

P. Boss has modified the ordinary plant by making the pulp flowing from the stamps pass through a grinding pan, then through a series of amalgamating pans followed by a row of settlers.

The largest granite boss gives relief to the wild upland of Dartmoor, culminating in High Willhays and Yes Tor.

The Tamar flows from north to south on the Devonian plain, which lies between Dartmoor on the east and the similar granitic boss of Bodmin Moor (where Brown Willy rises to 1345 ft.) on the west.

The two halves of the nave are secured by bolts or rivets passing through the flanges F, and the pulley is connected to the shaft by a sunk key or by conical keys driven in between the shaft and the boss, which latter is bored to suit.

It has no foot or stem underneath, but occasionally a boss rising in the centre inside.

Within ten years he became the acknowledged Republican "boss" of the state, and he again served in the United States Senate from 1897 to 1909.

Betsy toured the country, staying in plush hotels and dining in fine restaurants, all paid for by a boss who thought she was God's eldest daughter.

Her boss allowed her to beg off a trip that would cut into the weekend, after she complained about exhaustion fallowing our recent wedding activities.

Boss put you on the top three to evac when shit hits the fan.

Normally, she felt privileged that he still gave her the time of day, what with the way he'd turned out—formed like a Greek god with hazel eyes so pretty their boss swooned every time she spoke to him.