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honcho

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɑn.t͡ʃoʊ/Part of speech nounSorted chhnooStarts with HEnds with O0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a person who exercises control over workers

Word origin

From Japanese 班(はん)長(ちょう) (hanchō, “squad leader”), from 19th c. Mandarin 班長 /班长 (bānzhǎng, “team leader”). Probably entered English during World War II: many apocryphal stories describe American soldiers hearing Japanese prisoners-of-war refer to their lieutenants as hanchō.

Used in a sentence

  • Says they had no choice. Says the NVA killed the old honcho when he said no. Now he says all the rice is theirs.
  • Mostly he wrote what the higher honchos in the newsroom referred to, often condescendingly, as “offbeat” stories.
  • Gulfstream makes jets for both Hollywood honchos and foreign governments like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

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