BOSSDOM noun (baws-duh m)

noun

1. the status, influence, or power of a boss, especially a political boss.
2. bossism.


Quotes

Señor So-and-so is the most powerful boss in the province of Tarragona, and even at that there are those who dispute his bossdom.
--*P*o Baroja,*Caesar or Nothing, translated by Louis How, 1919


This was Lepke's first bid for bossdom. He was ready to try his theories.
--*Meyer Berger,*"Lepke," Life, February 28, 1944



Origin

Bossdom has a crude, graceless sound. It is originally an Americanism referring to the bosses of political machines at the municipal and state level. Bossdom first entered English in the late 19th century.