Employer vs. Boss — What's the Difference?

To provide work to (someone) for pay

A person who is in charge of a worker or organization

To engage the attention or activity of; occupy

A stud on the centre of a shield.

To put (something) to use or service

A large mass of igneous rock protruding through other strata.

To devote (time, for example) to an activity or purpose

A cow.

The state of being employed

Give (someone) orders in a domineering manner

(Archaic) An occupation.

Excellent; outstanding

A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.

An employer or supervisor.

One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.

One who makes decisions or exercises authority.

A person or firm that employs workers

A professional politician who controls a party or a political machine.

A circular protuberance or knoblike swelling, as on the horns of certain animals.

A raised area used as ornamentation.

(Architecture) A raised ornament, such as one at the intersection of the ribs in a vaulted roof.

An enlarged part of a shaft to which another shaft is coupled or to which a wheel or gear is keyed.

A hub, especially of a propeller.

A cow or calf.

To give orders to, especially in an arrogant or domineering manner

To emboss.

First-rate; topnotch.

A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

A person in charge of a business or company.

A leader, the head of an organized group or team.

The head of a political party in a given region or district.

A term of address to a man.

(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.

(humorous) Wife.

A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.

(geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.

A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.

(mechanics) A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.

(architectural element) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.

(archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

A head or reservoir of water.

(obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.

(transitive) To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.

(transitive) To decorate with bosses; to emboss.

Of excellent quality, first-rate.

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.

A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.

A head or reservoir of water.

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.

To ornament with bosses; to stud.

A person who exercises control over workers;

A person responsible for hiring workers;

A person who exercises control and makes decisions;

A leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments;

A circular rounded projection or protuberance

Raise in a relief;

Exceptionally good;