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"ref": "1998 June, Thomas Miller Klubock, Contested communities: Class, Gender, and Politics in Chile's El Teniente Copper Mine, 1904-1948, Duke University Press, page 147",
"text": "When they were slacking off in the mine, for example, and a jefe arrived unexpectedly, they shouted loro (parrot) or fuego (fire) as warning signals.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2004 December, Jeffrey Harris Cohen, The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico, University of Texas Press",
"text": "A jefe in this sense is a mentor, a person who is often a compadre of the migrant.... In any case, a jefe is not a loan shark",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "2005 May, Monica Rico, EMails that Go Nowhere, Google Mail.\nA jefe in this sense refers to a true boss, the leader of the household, also known as Jose Rico."
}
],
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"A boss in a business, company, or other organization."
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],
"tags": [
"US"
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}
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "business boss",
"word": "pomo"
}
],
"word": "jefe"
}
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "subalterno"
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"tags": [
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}
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"Rhymes:Spanish/efe/2 syllables",
"Spanish 2-syllable words",
"Spanish countable nouns",
"Spanish doublets",
"Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
"Spanish lemmas",
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"Spanish terms derived from Old French",
"Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish",
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"Spanish terms of address",
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"Spanish terms with audio links",
"es:Leaders",
"es:Occupations"
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"word": "general en jefe"
},
{
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"word": "jefazo"
},
{
"word": "jefe de estudios"
},
{
"word": "jefe de gobierno"
},
{
"word": "jefe de prensa"
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{
"word": "jefe de redacción"
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{
"word": "jefecito"
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{
"english": "editor in chief",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "redactor jefe"
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{
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"g3": "",
"id": "",
"lit": "",
"nocat": "",
"pos": "",
"sc": "",
"sort": "",
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"args": {
"1": "es",
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{
"args": {
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"expansion": "Portuguese chefe",
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{
"args": {
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"forms": [
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"form": "jefes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
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{
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
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"feminine"
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"form": "jefas",
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"plural"
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"tags": [
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"word": "cabeza"
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{
"tags": [
"masculine"
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{
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "capataz"
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{
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "capitán"
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{
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chef"
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{
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "coronel"
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{
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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{
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "general"
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{
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sargento"
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{
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "supervisor"
}
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[
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[
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{
"glosses": [
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"categories": [
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"colonel",
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"major",
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[
"captain",
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"masculine"
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{
"categories": [
"es:Heraldic charges"
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"chief"
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"heraldry",
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"chief",
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"masculine"
],
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"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"monarchy",
"nobility",
"politics"
]
},
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"es:Video games"
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"masculine"
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"Spanish colloquialisms"
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"glosses": [
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"ipa": "/ˈxefe/"
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"ipa": "[ˈxe.fe]"
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{
"rhymes": "-efe"
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"tags": [
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"alt": "pre-1815",
"word": "xefe"
}
],
"word": "jefe"
}
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