His boss gave him a severe reprimand for being late. (Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary & Thesaurus)
My boss was concerned that we had sustained such a large loss arising from the hurricane that our financial condition would be severely harmed. (investorwords.com)
The US energy regulator has taken civil action against a Dutch-based oil trading firm and three top employees for manipulating crude oil prices. [...] Bastiaan van Kempen, the boss of Chicago-based Optiver, a subsidiary of Optiver Holding, was named as a defendant along with trader Christopher Dowson and Randal Meijer, a supervisor of Optiver. (BBC News)
A drugs gang boss has been handed a 32-year jail term for his part in a plot which saw cannabis and cocaine worth around £100 million smuggled into England and Ireland. (Belfast Telegraph)
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