"bosslet" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "boss + -let",
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      "form": "bosslets",
      "tags": [
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1888, Richard Heber Newman, Sermons in All Souls Monthly, 1888-1891, page 40",
          "text": "[…] the time spent in office being guarded against all effective training through \"pulls\" held by these appointees upon our political bosses and bosslets, who allow of no attempt to hold them to any hard work - out of the primaries.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Matthew A. Crenson, Baltimore: A Political History, page 419",
          "text": "If successful, Claypoole's election would elevate Pollack even further above the city's other bosslets and aggravate the factional tensions that had divided the city council since Thomas D'Alesandro, Pollack's candidate, had become mayor.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "A lesser boss."
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        [
          "boss",
          "boss"
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  "word": "bosslet"
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        "2": "boss",
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "boss + -let",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bosslets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "bosslet (plural bosslets)",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1888, Richard Heber Newman, Sermons in All Souls Monthly, 1888-1891, page 40",
          "text": "[…] the time spent in office being guarded against all effective training through \"pulls\" held by these appointees upon our political bosses and bosslets, who allow of no attempt to hold them to any hard work - out of the primaries.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Matthew A. Crenson, Baltimore: A Political History, page 419",
          "text": "If successful, Claypoole's election would elevate Pollack even further above the city's other bosslets and aggravate the factional tensions that had divided the city council since Thomas D'Alesandro, Pollack's candidate, had become mayor.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A lesser boss."
      ],
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  "word": "bosslet"
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