I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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Mr Gergen will best serve his new boss if he reminds him of the strengths of one of his old ones.
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Maybe he was about to fail to impress his new boss .
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Running the show is the new boss of bosses, Bernardo Provenzano.
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Recently, Jeff had allowed himself to get into a serious personality conflict with a new boss .
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Tracy Corkhill has a new boss .
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He quickly discovered that his new boss had trouble in communicating.
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They tried to use the methods they had learned at Harvard until these were vetoed by their new boss .
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When I got a new boss who gave me the control, I was finally able to do my job.
old
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These are old party bosses who believe in strong central government, not least because it confirms their own power.
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One former Garcia confidante has testified in court that his old boss handed out millions to government officials who protected his shipments.
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Though the old boss was supposed to calm down the markets, the opposite happened.
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He remembered the way the old boss , Bill Simon, had treated the first mortgage securities.
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His timing was impeccable attacking his old boss on the day he was making a big speech on the economy.
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Gergen, who worked for Nixon, says his old boss thought the press had too much power.
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And nationalisation: that was great because it got rid of the old bosses .
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We track down his old bosses , in nursing homes.
■ NOUN
company
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Bosses hold off on pay COMPANY bosses are leading by example on pay restraint.
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That job was completed, but not without Hart expressing his views on the Santa Rita controversy to a few company bosses .
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Behind bars ... toy company bosses jailed for multi-million pound fraud.
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He plays the shipping company boss Mr Jaeger: Male speaker He's only filming for two days.
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Mersey Barrage Company bosses say the scheme has proved too bold for the funding it needed.
party
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He will probably be none other than General Jaruzelski, the party boss .
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Kennelly raged to the press about the evil party bosses and they took up his cry.
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With him as party boss , the current impasse will continue.
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The party bosses did what they had always done, which would be unthinkable today.
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These are old party bosses who believe in strong central government, not least because it confirms their own power.
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Sharaf Rashidov, the former party boss , would lie about the cotton crop year after year to ingratiate himself with Moscow.
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Nobody, least of all a Party boss , could be expected to watch, still more record, domestic television output!
ward
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Joe Burke, ward boss and alderman, begat Edward Burke, ward boss and alderman.
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Paul Sheridan, ward boss and alderman, begat Paul Sheridan, alderman.
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Theodore Swinarski, ward boss , begat Donald Swinarski, alderman.
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David Hartigan begat Neil Hartigan, ward boss and chief park district attorney.
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Many of the Daley aldermen are ward bosses .
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Louis Garippo, ward boss , begat Louis Garippo, judge.
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Lewis had been the ward boss in name only, because white precinct captains ran the organization, including him.
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Service and favors, the staples of the precinct captain and his ward boss .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
caretaker manager/government/boss etc
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A caretaker boss is expected to be named today.
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A player representation, led by caretaker manager Edwin Stein, received a rapturous welcome.
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All three parties undertook to support the caretaker government until the elections.
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And caretaker boss Barrow said he was a little disappointed at not taking three points!
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In the meantime, his assistant, Mr Ronnie Moran, would act as caretaker manager.
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The caretaker government had earlier introduced new laws increasing the penalties for election offences.
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They sought extra-parliamentary means to oust Chavalit, establish a caretaker government and hold a new election.
show (sb) who's boss
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As a secretary, my job includes taking my boss 's phone calls.
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Can you ask your boss if she'll let you leave early today?
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Does your boss know you're looking for another job?
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I don't make as much money as I used to, but I prefer being my own boss .
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She accuses her former boss of sexually harassing her.
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The front page of the paper announced "Company bosses get record pay increases".
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The managing director is a man but my immediate boss is a woman.
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There's a new guy at work who's always trying to impress the boss .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the boss still wants his money.
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But we noticed that people in Washington more or less assumed the personality and the style of their elected bosses.
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He will probably be none other than General Jaruzelski, the party boss .
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If they did this particularly well, analysts were thought well of by their bosses.
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It was a display which earned high praise, not least from Coventry boss Bobby Gould.
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Time and again as boss of Rangers and Liverpool, Souness has smashed the million-pound barrier to sign players.
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We worried about titles and offices and whether or not our bosses really liked us.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
caretaker manager/government/boss etc
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A caretaker boss is expected to be named today.
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A player representation, led by caretaker manager Edwin Stein, received a rapturous welcome.
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All three parties undertook to support the caretaker government until the elections.
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And caretaker boss Barrow said he was a little disappointed at not taking three points!
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In the meantime, his assistant, Mr Ronnie Moran, would act as caretaker manager.
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The caretaker government had earlier introduced new laws increasing the penalties for election offences.
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They sought extra-parliamentary means to oust Chavalit, establish a caretaker government and hold a new election.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Stop bossing me around!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also it was about time he learnt that bossing her around wouldn't be a push-over for him.
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I am teamed-up on a long-term assignment with some one who keeps trying to boss me around.
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I don't know why you think you have the right to boss us around.
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I iced him so bad when he bossed me, he might never be back.
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The idea of bossing anybody around was as alien to him as it was distasteful in his mind.
III. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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That's a really boss surfboard.