bossocracy

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noun

An autocratic rule by bosses.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounbossocracy (countable and uncountable, plural bossocracies)

plural bossocracies

  1. 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 79
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    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.

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