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Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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