Associations to the word «Bossism»

Wiktionary

BOSSISM, noun. (US) (politics) The domination of a political party by a single, powerful person (the boss)

Dictionary definition

BOSSISM, noun. Domination of a political organization by a party boss.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne