Boss

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɒs/

• Audio (UK):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɔs/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bɑs/

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• Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs

Boss

1. A surname.

• sobs, SBOs, SOBs, BSOs, BSSO

• Boß (pre-1996)

In the contemporary form (19th c.) chiefly from English boss, partly also from older northern German Baas (17th c.), both eventually from Dutch baas.

• IPA^(key): /bɔs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔs

Boss m (strong, genitive Bosses, plural Bosse)

1. (usually informal or derogatory) boss (person in charge, supervisor)

   Synonyms: Chef, Vorgesetzter

2. (video games) boss

   Synonym: Endgegner

• In common speech, Boss may be a fairly neutral synonym of Chef. In more formal contexts such neutral usage is sometimes met with in compounds, e.g. with the name of some company. For the most part, however, Boss has a negative overtone, either personal (despotism, haughtiness) or systemic (big business, predatory capitalism).

• (video games): Endboss, Zwischenboss

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