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leadmen

noun

plural of leadman
as in straw bosses

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leadmen
  1. managers
  2. principals
  3. supervisors
  4. leaders
  5. superintendents
  6. overseers
  7. superiors
  8. chiefs
Noun
  • Young professionals send out thousands of applications with no luck, while hiring managers wade through a deluge of candidates for a single job posting.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • In an email exchange, store managers Sara Beattie and Brooke Berlin tell us what museumgoers are buying right now.
    — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of managers
Noun
  • Those dollar amounts increase the following school year to $570 and $11,400 for principals, and $285 and $5,700 for assistant principals, the memo said.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • An EducationWeek Research Center study conducted earlier this year found that a majority of a nationally representative sample of 753 teachers, principals and district leaders use technology between one and four hours each day.
    — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of principals
Noun
  • Bass said her review would be a top down evaluation that scrutinizes the roles of dispatchers, supervisors and others involved in responding to reports of people behaving erratically.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Traceable references make each claim defensible when sharing work with clients or supervisors.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of supervisors
Noun
  • The pact is expected to be signed at the ASEAN Summit this November, when leaders from the group’s 11 member states will converge in Manila.
    — Jon M. Huntsman, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Stanford professor Matt Abrahams and Zapier CEO Wade Foster discuss how leaders are using AI to synthesize information, structure ideas, prepare for difficult conversations, and rehearse for high-stakes moments.
    — Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of leaders
Noun
  • In a message to District 118 families Thursday, interim co-superintendents Todd Leden and Brian Wegley said Anderlik has been placed on administrative leave and is barred from entering district property or contacting students.
    — Mick Zawislak, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The selection of key pieces of Oklahoma’s high-stakes reading law is underway in a process that likely will straddle two governors and state superintendents.
    — Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of superintendents
Noun
  • Now, our narrow-minded and hard-hearted lawmakers and education overseers do not want undocumented students in Florida to get a college education.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The incidents exposed the difficulty of achieving a safety principle called alignment, in which AI takes into account the ethics and goals of its human overseers, Jackson said.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of overseers
Noun
  • The series begins during a police intervention in which two officers shoot an unarmed teenager and decide to conceal what happened from their superiors.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Bartholow reported to her superiors at SEIU California that Regan stood uncomfortably close and hovered over her at the bar at a fundraiser for the state Senate leader in San Diego in March as tensions flared over the billionaire tax.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of superiors
Noun
  • And Newsom has often been an ally to the state’s striving technology industry chiefs.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • All five service chiefs and 9 in 10 combatant commanders are white men.
    — Jeremiah Favara, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of chiefs
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“Leadmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leadmen. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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