bosses

nounmanager over other employees
verbcontrol; command

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Word Origin & History

"overseer," 1640s, American English, from Dutch baas "a master," Middle Dutch baes, of obscure origin. If original sense was "uncle," perhaps it is related to Old High German basa "aunt," but some sources discount this theory. The Dutch form baas is attested in English from 1620s as the standard title of a Dutch ship's captain. The word's popularity in U.S. may reflect egalitarian avoidance of master (n.) as well as the need to distinguish slave from free labor. The slang adjective meaning "excellent" is recorded in 1880s, revived, apparently independently, in teen and jazz slang in 1950s.

Example Sentences forbosses

We're going to stand together, we won't let the bosses split us apart.

We should call them "bosses," but the Romans called them "triumvirs."

“I like to see men loyal to their bosses,” he said good-naturedly.

Will not political manipulators and bosses betray their trusts?

Bosses should not make passes At gals who work as lower classes.

Then, too, the bosses and the boys don't like him—to put it mildly.

But there can't be two bosses on any one job, to say nothing of three or seventeen.

He examined the coronet again, remembering that there was something about its bosses, too.

Tyrants were bosses, produced by democracy in towns, but hated by democrats.

It is thus a party of the people, by the people and for the people, which bosses cannot corrupt or betray.

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