- 1（新聞用語）一把手、最高負責人、大老闆；美式英語多說 czar
A supremo is the one person at the very top of some activity or organisation — the boss above all the other bosses, with the power to decide things alone. Newspapers use it for a person put in charge of a whole area: a transport supremo, a fashion supremo, the party's election supremo.
The word is British, and it lives almost entirely in headlines and news writing. This is important, because headlines need short words, and "supremo" is shorter than "the person with overall responsibility for." You will read it far more often than you will hear it. Americans mostly do not use it; they would say czar (or ) — "the drugs czar" — for the same idea.
The feeling of the word is worth noticing. It is not a neutral job title. It carries a slight raised — a suggestion that this person has grand powers, maybe grander than anyone should have. Journalists often use it with a touch of humour, especially for someone in a small world: a " supremo" is not running a country. So it can flatter and it can gently mock, and which one it is depends on the sentence around it.
The plural is supremos.
組成Borrowed whole from Italian supremo, meaning "supreme, highest." English took the word in and made it a person: the supreme one. It is a doublet of supreme — the same ancient root arriving in English twice by different roads.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
supremonoun/suːˈpɹiːməʊ/
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informalThe most important person in an organization.
- Kitchener was, of course, Secretary of State for War and virtual military supremo.
- Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king's dark skin colour.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。