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boss around

/bɒs əˈraʊnd/

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verb

/bɒs əˈraʊnd/B2formal
  • ruФразовый глагол, используемый для обозначения действия по отдаче приказов кому-либо властным или авторитарным образом.

A phrasal verb used to indicate the act of giving orders to someone in a domineering or authoritative manner.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

  1. Dominate or orderinformal

    To tell someone what to do in a domineering or controlling manner.

    ruКомандовать

    • He always tries to boss his younger brother around.
    • She doesn't like being bossed around by her manager.
    • Stop bossing me around; I can make my own decisions.

    Synonymsbullydomineerlord it overpush aroundtyrannize

    Antonymscomplyfollowobeyservesubmit

Forms
  • bossed around past participle
  • bossed around past simple
  • bossing around present participle
  • bosses around third person singular

Base verbboss

Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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