Definition of "bossing" [bossing]

• Present participle of boss. (verb)

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• "Basically, the idea is the same one behind the rise of Business Administration degrees at universities: There is a general science of bossing, which is broadly about manipulating money and to a lesser extent about manipulating people, and more specific knowledge of how to do things in any particular business is irrelevant."
• "And we all saw that Kate had a tendency of, you know, kind of bossing Jon around."
• "The boys then perceived that Ruth's "bossing" was evidently a daily occurrence, a sort of family joke, and joined in laughing with old Mr. Everett, who seemed to take such keen delight in "saving his pride.""