noun as in manager over other employees
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administrator, chief, chieftain, director, employer, executive, leader, owner, supervisor
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controller, exec, foreperson, head, honcho, overseer, superintendent, wheel
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big cheese, big gun, big person, dominator, girlboss, head honcho, helmer, person in charge, taskperson, top dog
noun as in game antagonist
verb as in control; command
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administer, administrate, chaperone, direct, employ, manage, overlook, oversee, quarterback, run, superintend, supervise, survey
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Two months later, Murphy took over the intelligence office after his boss retired and proceeded to have multiple meetings with Cuccinelli on the HTA.
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You might fool me about how well you do your job, you might fool your boss about how well you do your job, but you will never fool you.
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Shivani Siroya, 38, CEO & founder at TalaThe best career advice I ever received came from my boss, Eva Weissman, when I was working at the United Nations Population Fund.
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Manu Kumar Jain, 39, global vice president, Xiaomi, and managing director, Xiaomi IndiaThe best advice I ever received was from my first boss at McKinsey & Company, Ireena Vittal, who also recruited me into the firm.
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Already short-staffed in light of cost cuts, agency bosses will need to weigh up their chances of winning new business with the impact it will have on work for current clients.
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Based on the hat he had created for himself, Stetson made a version called “The Boss of the Plains.”
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NBC News boss Deborah Turness abruptly ousted the ‘Meet the Press’ host four months ago.
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Like his boss al-Baghdadi, he was captured by U.S. forces and served time in Camp Bucca.
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I later told my boss about what had happened, but she told me that I probably misunderstood the situation.
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His sensitivity to this problem came out in his first sharp disagreement with his boss, VMI superintendent Francis H. Smith.
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Delancy knew that the message was from that man he had never seen—the big boss, the man who knew all the answers.
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Each man knows his part and your near neighbor, John Smith, is boss of the whole.
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Money and political power, boss of this State—that's what I'm after—and no idle dream either.
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Policemen send their daughters to Europe, and the boss politicians get rich so fast they spend money almost like a gentleman.
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Something came up today and the boss had to leave in a hurry—right in the middle of a conference.
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