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executive Definition

ex·ecu·tive (eg zek′yo̵̅o̅ tiv, ig-; --yə-)

adjective

  1. of, capable of, or concerned with, carrying out duties, functions, etc. or managing affairs, as in a business organization
  2. empowered and required to administer (laws, government affairs, etc.); administrative
  3. of administrative or managerial personnel or functions

Etymology: ME < ML executivus < L executus: see executor

noun

  1. the person, group of people, or branch of government empowered and required to administer the laws and affairs of a nation
  2. any person whose function is to administer or manage affairs, as of a corporation, school, etc.

executive Synonyms

executive

modif.

managing, managerial, governing, supervisory; see administrative.

executive Synonyms

executive

n.

official, manager, businessperson, exec*; see administrator.

executive Law Definition

n

The branch of government including the president and those responsible to him or her for implementing the laws of the United States.
executive Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • appoint: Mark Allen has been appointed chief executive of Unite, the student housing company, effective from the end of 2006.
  • elect: At a later date, they will be replaced by an elected five-member executive.

Adjective modifier

  • chief: Ian Mullen, BBA chief executive, took over in May 2001.
  • senior: Several employees, perhaps including highly paid senior executives, may have to give evidence.
  • former: He is a former chief executive of the SNP.
  • Scottish: Dr. K Black, from the Scottish executive 's marine laboratory in Argyll, says it's nothing to do with fish farm excrement.
  • interim: Interim chief executive Roger Thayne resigned in May rather than implement the cuts.
  • corporate: An employer can three areas preventive first corporate executive.

Modifies a noun

  • summary: An HTML version of the executive summary is also now available.
  • director: The executive director hence whiteness becomes is stripped naked.
  • committee: The Chairman of the Diversity Steering Group also sits on the company's executive committee.
  • producer: Even Carpenter still gets a mention, doing the work of an executive producer.
  • officer: The company must have at least two executive officers.
  • chairman: Contacts Barrie Pearson is executive chairman of Livingstone Guarantee.

Noun used with modifier

  • power-sharing: These efforts were to bring some success and led in November 1999 to the formation of the power-sharing Executive proposed under the GFA.
  • NHS: The NHS Executive aims to introduce pilot schemes in April.
  • sale: We were in the process of negotiation with the sales executive, trying to agree a better deal on a new car.
  • non-: This non- executive group will include leading experts from the architectural and sustainable design world.
  • advertising: Gilliam has mentioned that he has Johnny Depp in mind as a modern-day advertising executive who travels back in time.
  • marketing: A marketing executive was appointed at the end of 2005 to coordinate campaign activity.
executive Quotes

A half-creature of the Senate and a half-creature of the executive.

—Mansfield, Michael Joseph

The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

—Gibbon, Edward

Consider Ireland. Thus you have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Churchöand in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield