Boss

boss boß English + (surname) Pronunciation en /bɒs/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-boss.wav UK en /bɔs/ GenAm en /bɑs/ cot-caught en en-us-boss.ogg US,cot-caught en ɒs ɔːs 1 Proper noun en. Statistics According to the 2010 United States Census, Boss is the 4154th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8529 individuals. Boss is most common among White (86.69%) individuals. Anagrams en boss sobs SBOs SOBs BSOs BSSO German Alternative forms de Boß pre-1996 Etymology de dum odt gmw-pro gem-pro In the contemporary form (19th c.) from de en boss, but partly continuing also the older northern German de Baas 1 (17th c.), both ultimately from de nl baas. Pronunciation de /bɔs/ de De-Boss.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de ɔs 1 Noun m.dat:- in[fairly rare] de usually informal or derogatory boss person in charge, supervisor de Chef Leiter Vorgesetzter de video games boss de Endgegner Usage notes In everyday speech, de Boss can be a fairly neutral synonym of de Chef. Otherwise, such neutral use is sometimes met with in compounds, e.g. with the name of some company. For the most part, however, de Boss has a negative overtone, either personal (despotism, haughtiness) or systemic (big business, predatory capitalism). Declension m.dat:- Derived terms supervisor en Finanzboss, en Konzernboss, en Parteiboss, en Vereinsboss, de Wirtschaftsboss video games de Endboss, de Zwischenboss Further reading