请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 boss
释义
boss
(bɒs )
Word forms: bosses , bossing , bossed
1. countable noun [oft poss NOUN] A2
Your boss is the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
He cannot stand his boss.
Occasionally I have to go and ask the boss for a rise.
Synonyms: manager, head, leader, director  
2. countable noun
If you are the boss in a group or relationship, you are the person who makes all the decisions. [informal]
He thinks he's the boss.
3. verb
If you say that someone bosses you, you mean that they keep telling you what to do in a way that is irritating.
We cannot boss them into doing more. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
'You are not to boss me!' she shouted. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: be in charge, run, control, manage  
Boss around, or in British English boss about, means the same as boss.
He started bossing people around and I didn't like what was happening. [VERB noun PARTICLE]
[Also VERB PARTICLE noun]
4. be one's own boss phrase
If you are your own boss, you work for yourself or make your own decisions and do not have anyone telling you what to do.
I'm very much my own boss and no one interferes with what I do.
Phrasal verbs:
boss around boss [sense 3]
Idioms:
show someone who's boss
to prove to someone that you have more power or control than they do
It was a classic strategy: show new students who is boss at the very beginning and everything will then go smoothly.
Collocations:
corporate boss
What's the difference between a corporate boss and a famous entertainer?
Times, Sunday Times
Many corporate bosses are poor communicators because they believe more means better, when in fact the opposite applies.
Times, Sunday Times
From their comfortable position in the boardroom, corporate bosses also seem to have little idea how much courage it requires for junior staff to take on big companies.
Times, Sunday Times
Her organisation promises to help corporate bosses to improve their decision-making abilities by being more spiritual at work.
Times, Sunday Times
There can be more winners than losers among corporate bosses.
Globe and Mail
crime boss
But reporters can now put together and rely on an inferential case that a person is a crime boss.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The ageing crime boss had rarely looked more vulnerable.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It's telling that the most unpleasant villain of the piece is not the evil crime boss or any of his sadistic henchmen.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
demanding boss
Instead, she toils in the magazine trenches, fetching coffees for her demanding boss and being sneered at for her bad clothes by airhead fashionistas.
Times, Sunday Times
And he admits he can be a demanding boss.
The Sun
Spurs looked like they were on an apprenticeship scheme, firsttimers thrown in at the deep end by a demanding boss.
The Sun
Energetic and imbued with a boyish enthusiasm, he was a benevolent if demanding boss whose success was built on a hands-on style.
Times,Sunday Times
He was a demanding boss, calling for something far beyond my ability to deliver.
Christianity Today
immediate boss
We promise to select your immediate boss from among your worst enemies.
Times, Sunday Times
I was very junior and [the immediate boss] was still junior relative to the hierarchy.
Times, Sunday Times
My manager: people's attitude to their immediate boss.
Times, Sunday Times
They also speak highly of their workmates and immediate bosses.
Times, Sunday Times
He will want to explain not just to his immediate bosses but also to the team he has worked with for almost six years.
Times, Sunday Times
impress the boss
The time that you naturally take to help someone get to grips with a new project really could impress the boss.
The Sun
But while players were not risking injury, they had to balance that by putting in a shift to impress the boss.
The Sun
I was back to square one, fighting for my place, trying to impress the boss.
The Sun
According to a survey, one in four of us bakes cakes to take into work to impress the boss.
Times, Sunday Times
But he has made a supreme effort to impress the boss in training this week.
The Sun
new boss
There is a leadership programme for managers and an induction course for new bosses.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Will he impress his new boss and cover up his part in the accident?
The Sun (2015)
A new boss might see things differently.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
party boss
A party boss said he was relieved that 'it didn't end up cut into steaks'.
Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, as a party boss he enjoyed tremendous power.
Times, Sunday Times
And the 16-page dossier adds up all the commitments he has made as party boss or during his two leadership campaigns that he has not discarded.
The Sun
This story may have been a factor in his selection as party boss.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
Tanner was a tireless worker and strong-willed party boss.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
please the boss
He never lost his cool and that will please his boss, who struggles with the club's disciplinary record.
The Sun
Hoping to please the boss?
Times,Sunday Times
It's a refreshing point of view that will no doubt please the boss.
The Sun
Because it'd be terrible to discover they were just playing along to please the boss?
Times, Sunday Times
She'll do everything to please her boss.
Globe and Mail
studio boss
But it's also nice to write something that doesn't require the approval of a studio boss.
Times,Sunday Times
Plus, there's no studio boss telling them what to do.
Times, Sunday Times
But in 2006 her career ran into trouble when she was blasted by her studio boss for 'all-night heavy partying'.
The Sun
However, the studio boss likes their natural comedic talent and tells the director that the trio are to be signed on for an oncoming film.
Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
Behind the scenes, this has all been planned for years, with studio bosses swotting over release dates and promotional pushes.
Times, Sunday Times
team boss
A certain amount of cynicism on the part of American team bosses is justified.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The F1 supremo spoke with senior team bosses here about a new championship which would take place before the main grands prix.
The Sun (2015)
The duo were even hauled in front of team bosses and given a ticking off and warned about their future conduct.
The Sun (2014)
Both drivers were hauled in to explain themselves to their team bosses.
The Sun (2019)
underworld boss
She gets on the blower to her underworld boss.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
What saved me in jail was that a powerful underworld boss took pity on me and protected me.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
union boss
He had the forthright and authoritarian style of an old-school union boss and demanded absolute loyalty from his staff.
Times, Sunday Times
A former union boss, he also has the party contacts that could help him to the top job.
Times, Sunday Times
But the portly former union boss went into the latest arrangement with his eyes wide open.
Times, Sunday Times
One union boss said there was a 'very strong' exchange of views.
The Sun
The union boss fears that it may set a damaging precedent, with other companies using similar tactics to get out of pension commitments.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 上司
Japanese: ボス
随便看

 

英语词典包含147115条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/22 1:33:39