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(n)
(informal) Boss, leader.
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(management) The leader of a work crew.
The leader or head of a tribe, organisation, business unit, or other group.
a person responsible for hiring workers
The highest or uppermost part of something.
A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.
(film) A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
(obsolete, rare) Synonym of boss (“a knob or projection”).
A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification.
(architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.
(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
(colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
A leader of a political party.
(N)
In the politics of the United States of America, a boss is a person who controls a faction or local branch of a political party.
(adj)
Having relevant and crucial value; having import.
of great significance or value
(management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
(management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.
A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.
A boss in a business, company, or other organization.
An owner.
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
One who owns something.
A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
A landlord; the master of a large estate.
A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
Someone who has control over something or someone.
(music) A person who conducts an orchestra, choir or other music ensemble; a professional whose occupation is conducting.
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
A professional who counsels people, especially on personal problems.
(politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly:
A leader of a clan or tribe.
(seduction community) An instance of sarging.
One who exercises control and direction of a military or naval organization.
The amount of money levied for a service.
A person that leases real property; a lessor.
A chief administrative officer of a prison.
Any person who leads or directs.
(literally) One who handles something (especially manually) or someone.
Model, example.
(v)
(figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
A person or (especially) a company who publishes, especially books.
A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
(military) The lowest junior commissioned officer rank(s) in many military forces, often Army and Marines.
(physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
(government) A politician who heads a ministry
(UK, Ireland, chiefly London, informal) A form of address to a man, usually a stranger or a superior.
(informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated in the US) A male person.
The mental power or ability of choosing; the will.
(television) A superimposed caption or image.
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
A female landlord.
The wife of one's biological father, other than one's biological mother.
The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
(colloquial) A man or boy; a fellow.
(usually childish) Father.
(informal) grandfather
A male child.
An adult male human.
That which complies with justice, law or reason.
Someone or something that is large in stature.
A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
(informal, rare, chiefly India) headmaster
A person who rules or governs; someone or something that exercises dominion or controlling power over others.
(photography) Initialism of single-lens reflex, or clipping of SLR camera.
A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
A pattern; the production of a pattern; the process of forming a pattern.
(geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
(figurative, informal) The most important person in a usually evil undertaking or organization, often a druglord.
(originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
(nautical) The master of a ship.
A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
In a ship's boat, the helmsman given charge of the boat's crew.
A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
(uncountable) Makeup for the lips.
(by extension) A forceful attack, whether written or spoken.
(clothing) An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
One side of a coin:
The head cook of a restaurant or other establishment.
One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
(US, slang) Term of address for a close, usually male, friend.
A Mexican dish made by wrapping a filling in a tortilla, then baking in a sauce.
A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish origin.
Any of the statuettes awarded by the American Theatre Wing.
(countable) A British surname transferred from the given name.
A surname from Irish.
A surname from Bengali.