The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word HUMAN
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result HUMAN
- Buzz coming with a northern person
- Person to be active, a knight
- Smell an earthling
- Person creating a stink with article
- Kind of sound intermittently faint
- Buzzword for one thing that bosses and workers all are
- Individual involved with soldier can become malnourished
- Create stink with article that’s proverbially erroneous
- Term for old German covers master race’s member
- Person creating buzz over article
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The straight part
We know that "thing that bosses and workers all are" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case thing that bosses and workers all are = human.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does HUMAN mean?
HUMAN noun- A human being, whether man, woman or child.
- To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.
- (notcomp) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
- Having the nature or attributes of a human being.