as in boss
the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do
Everyone knows that the real jefe of that football team is the quarterback and not the coach.
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Recent Examples of jefe
Chambers, a longtime exec, spent a great degree of time in L.A. since serving as distribution jefe for Disney.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
Many of my peers learned English from Scully — as my jefe Hector once wrote, there was no better teacher outside of Warner Bros. cartoons.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
Los Tigres del Norte Leave it to Los Tigres del Norte’s power anthem to get everyone on the dance floor feeling like a jefe (boss).
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 4 May 2022
By April 18, the sometime ship mechanic Manuel Hedilla, acting head of the party, was elected its new jefe nacional by a narrow vote.
—Jesús Palacios, Slate Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
Many of my peers learned English from Scully — as my jefe Hector once wrote, there was no better teacher outside of Warner Bros. cartoons.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2022
Los Tigres del Norte Leave it to Los Tigres del Norte’s power anthem to get everyone on the dance floor feeling like a jefe (boss).
—Billboard Staff, Billboard, 4 May 2022
By April 18, the sometime ship mechanic Manuel Hedilla, acting head of the party, was elected its new jefe nacional by a narrow vote.
—Jesús Palacios, Slate Magazine, 9 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jefe
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The Paley Center for Media opened its new archive, which comprises more than 160,000 television, radio programs and advertisements, at the Beverly Hills Public Library with a little help from FX boss John Landgraf.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
21 Mar. 2025
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Tomorrow, Saturday, March 22, the Artcore label boss is slated to take over New York City’s Brooklyn Storehouse.—
Lisa Kocay,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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In this version, Snow White puts the dwarves to work, giving them each a job and acting as a kind of foreman.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
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Azevedo, a sheet-metal foreman who won election last year to a second council term, has repeatedly declined to comment on the FBI raid at his home, except to declare his innocence.—
Jakob Rodgers,
The Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2025
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Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts Pildes added that public opinion can be expressed through economics, which federal leaders watch attentively.—
Ivan Pereira,
ABC News,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Olympic Journey: Failure In 2008 Elana had finished an outstanding college softball career at GWU as the all-time leader in many offensive categories.—
Tim Genske,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Those were the cultural concepts that Harvey Pratt, a chief of the tribe, drew on to design the Native American Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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Karl recalled that about forty minutes later, the chief called back with bad news.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
21 Mar. 2025
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The former captain excels at hunting pucks, which is an important part of goal-line duty.—
Fluto Shinzawa,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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What the team captain wasn’t expecting was getting a leg cramp with four minutes remaining in the state championship game and her team holding a 53-48 lead against Melbourne Palm Bay in the Class 4A title game.—
Gary Curreri,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Mar. 2025
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Tom Sharpe, former United Kingdom Royal Navy commander, reiterated this point.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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Murder, torture, rape and summary executions of prisoners of war ordered by commanders.—
Askold Haywas,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
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Even historically celebrated geniuses like Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs benefited immensely from working in fields that were fertile with change, ripe for disruption, and full of hard-working builders, makers, managers, and workers.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Most significant, though, was the presence of Egil Olsen, a manager derided as a dinosaur at the time but who looks, in hindsight, an awful lot like a pioneer.—
Rory Smith,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Jefe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jefe. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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