Usually means: Leader responsible for overseeing employees.
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We found 65 dictionaries that define the word boss:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. boss: Merriam-Webster
  2. BOSS, BOSS, boss, boss, boss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. boss, boss, boss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boss: Collins English Dictionary
  5. boss: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boss, boss: Wordnik
  7. boss: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BOSS, boss: Wiktionary
  9. boss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boss: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boss: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. boss: Dictionary.com
  13. boss (1), boss (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. boss: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. B.O.S.S. (record label), BOSS (molecular mechanics), Boss (Australian band), Boss (Fifth Harmony song), Boss (Lil Pump song), Boss (TV series), Boss (architecture), Boss (band), Boss (book), Boss (crime), Boss (engineering), Boss (film), Boss (gaming), Boss (geology), Boss (rapper), Boss (surname), Boss (video game), Boss (video games), Boss (video gaming), Boss, The Boss (Diana Ross album), The Boss (Diana Ross song), The Boss (Jimmy Smith album), The Boss (Metal Gear), The Boss (Rick Ross song), The Boss (Sivaji song), The Boss (TV series), The Boss (Timati album), The Boss (band), The Boss (roller coaster), The Boss, The boss: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Boss: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. boss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. boss: Rhymezone
  19. Boss (m), boss: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. boss: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BOSS: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Boss: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. BOSS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. boss: FreeDictionary.org
  25. boss: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. boss: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. Boss: World Wide Words
  28. boss: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  29. boss: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boss: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. BOSS: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. boss: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOSS: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Boss: Game Dictionary
  3. boss: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. boss: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. boss: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Boss: Castle Terms
  3. BOSS: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. boss: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BOSS(ES): Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

Slang (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Boss (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. boss, boss, boss, boss, boss, boss: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. boss: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Boss: 1960's Slang
  5. boss: ESL Slang page
  6. B.O.S.S, BOSS: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Boss: Bicycle Glossary
  2. Boss: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. BOSS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
noun:  A person in charge of a business or company.
noun:  A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
noun:  The head of a political party in a given region or district.
noun:  (informal, especially India, MLE and Philippines) A term of address to a man.
noun:  (video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
noun:  (humorous) Wife.
verb:  (transitive) To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.
adjective:  (slang, US, Canada, Liverpool) Of excellent quality, first-rate.
noun:  A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.
noun:  (geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
noun:  A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
noun:  (mechanics) A protrusion; frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
noun:  (architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
noun:  (architecture) A roughly cut stone set in place for later carving.
noun:  (archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
noun:  A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
noun:  A head or reservoir of water.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate with bosses; to emboss.
noun:  (obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (US, finance) Initialism of Bond and Option Sales Strategy.

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