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overboss en · NOUN

From over- + boss.

A boss of underbosses in a criminal organization.
- His overboss was constantly on his back checking, making sure the money was coming in. Costa owed his overboss €50,000, the price for protection and safe transit to the UK. 2017, Alastair Macleod, Illegal, →ISBN:
- Five years later Trillot had proven his worth to a local Tenloss syndicate, and two years after that he resigned from Cestus Cybernetics to work directly for the overboss himself. 2004, Steven Barnes, The Hive, page 89:
- But Buscetta neglected to inform his overboss about his extracurricular activity in crime. 1991, William Balsamo, George Carpozi, Crime Incorporated Or Under the Clock, →ISBN:

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overbosses	Number=Plur		lexicographic

From over- + boss.

To micromanage.
- Those who refuse to take responsibility argue that what ails people is that they are, or have been, overbossed, and not left enough on their own to develop their natural good nature. 1953, Rhoda Kellogg, Babies need fathers, too, page 191:
- Either they‟re overbossed or underbossed. Either the father tells them when to breathe, or he ignores them. 2006, Mary Edwards Wertsch, Military Brats: Legacies of Childhood Inside the Fortress, →ISBN:
- Both nursing and nonnursing students viewed nurses as respected and hardworking; however, more of the nonnursing than nursing students considered nurses to be overbossed and to have little chance for advancement or independent thinking. 1975, Helen S. Astin, Allison Parelman, Anne E. Fisher, Sex Roles: A Research Bibliography, page 252:

Spelling	Features	Source
overbosses	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
overbossed	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
overbossed	Tense=Past	lexicographic
overbossing	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic