Meanings
plural bossocracies
- countableuncountableAn autocratic rule by bosses.
And, as Bell's wages are no higher than the other men's, and he certainly out-works any one of them, at any sort of job, his boss-ocracy cannot rightfully be offensive to their republicanism.
1854 August 3, “The Fireside: The Boss of a Seventy Acre Republic”, in The Country Gentleman, volume 4, number 5, Albany: Luther Tucker, page 791 more example
It may be 2003, but the bossocracy still reigns supreme. And it's no nano-problem. We are suffering from a pallid homogeneity of opinion. […] Smaller companies, led by opinionated entrepreneurs, often create some of the most thought-controlled bossocracies.
2003 March 1, Adam Hanft, “Grist: Down With Bossocracy”, in Inc.
Origin
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