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headmannoun the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to doas headman at the newspaper 20 years ago, he hired the then-promising young reporter who won this year's Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting boss, boss man, captain, chief, foreman, head, helmsman, honcho, jefe, kingpin, leader, master, taskmaster directress, mistressadministrator, commander, director, executive, general, governor, hierarch, higher-upleadman, manager, overseer, principal, skipper, standard-bearer, steward, straw boss, superintendent, superior, supervisordominator, lord, overlord, potentate, ruler, sovereign(also sovran)figureheadslave driverbaron, czar(also tsar or tzar), king, magnate, mogul, president, princebig cheese, big gun, bigwig, top dog, top guncohead, coleaderemployer, gaffer(British), ganger(British)micromanagersubchief, subdirector dependent, inferior, junior, secondary, subject, subordinate, underling before the 12th century |