political boss

1. 1.

   a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments

   “party bosses have a reputation for corruption”

   Synonymsparty bossboss

   Broaderpolitician

Questions about political boss

What does political boss mean?

political boss means "a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments".

What is another word for political boss?

Close synonyms include party boss, boss. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is political boss a common word?

political boss is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.