| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manager over other employees |
| Synonyms: | administrator, big cheese, big gun, big person, chief, chieftain, controller, director, dominator, employer, exec, executive, foreperson, head, head honcho, helmer, honcho, leader, overseer, owner, person in charge, superintendent, supervisor, taskperson, top dog, wheel |
| Antonyms: | employee, worker |
| Main Entry: | administrator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who manages organization |
| Synonyms: | CEO, ambassador, authority, boss, bureaucrat, captain, chair, chairperson, chief, commander, consul, controller, custodian, dean, director, exec, executive, front office, governor, head, head honcho, head person, inspector, judge, leader, manager, mayor, minister, officer, official, organizer, overseer, person upstairs, premier, president, prez, producer, superintendent, supervisor |
| Antonyms: | employee, worker |
| Main Entry: | authority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expert, animate or inanimate |
| Synonyms: | CEO, arbiter, aristocrat, bible, big cheese, big shot, big wig, boss, brains, brass, buff*, city hall, connoisseur, czar, egghead, establishment*, exec, executive, expert, feds, front office, governor, guru, ivory dome, judge, kingfish, kingpin, law*, power elite, pro, professional, professor, pundit, scholar, specialist, textbook, top brass, top dog, top hand, upstairs, veteran, virtuoso, whiz, wizard |
| Main Entry: | big deal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something or someone important |
| Synonyms: | VIP, big cheese, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, biggie, bigwig, boss, boss man, head honcho, hotshot, important person, top dog, tycoon, very important person |
| Main Entry: | capitalist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person engaged in private ownership of business |
| Synonyms: | backer, banker, bourgeois, businessperson, entrepreneur, financier, investor, landowner, moneybags, one who signs the checks, plutocrat, the boss, the money |
| Antonyms: | communist |
| Main Entry: | captain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chief of vehicle, effort |
| Synonyms: | CEO, CFO, authority, boss, cap, chieftain, commander, director, exec, executive, four-striper, guide, head, head honcho, higher up, leader, master, mistress, number one, officer, operator, owner, pilot, royalty, skip*, skipper, top dog, top* |
| Main Entry: | chief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in charge |
| Synonyms: | big cheese, big gun, big wheel, bigwig, boss, captain, chieftain, commander, dictator, director, foreperson, general, governor, head, head honcho, head person, honcho, key player, leader, manager, monarch, overlord, overseer, president, principal, proprietor, ringleader, ruler, sovereign, superintendent, supervisor, suzerain, top brass, top cat |
| Antonyms: | apprentice, employee, servant, subordinate, underling, worker |
| Main Entry: | commander |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leader of military or other organization |
| Synonyms: | CO, administrator, big cheese, boss, captain, chief, commandant, czar, director, don, exec, guru, head, head honcho, head person, high priest/priestess, higher up, kingfish, kingpin, lead-off person, mastermind, officer, point person, ruler, skipper, top banana, top brass, top dog |
| Antonyms: | follower |
| Main Entry: | dictator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absolute ruler |
| Synonyms: | Hitler, absolutist, adviser, authoritarian, autocrat, boss, chief, commander, despot, disciplinarian, fascist, leader, magnate, mogul, oligarch, oppressor, ringleader, slavedriver, totalitarian, tycoon, tyrant, usurper |