executive | ||
1. | [ noun ] a person responsible for the administration of a business | |
Synonyms: | executive_director | |
Related terms: | administrator vice_president corporate_executive surgeon_general rainmaker minister | |
2. | [ adjective ] having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc. | |
Examples: | "the executive branch" |
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Related terms: | execution | |
3. | [ noun ] (government) persons who administer the law | |
Related terms: | administration Bush_administration Clinton_administration Reagan_administration Carter_administration government | |
4. | [ noun ] (government) someone who manages a government agency or department | |
Synonyms: | administrator | |
Related terms: | head commissioner Secretary_General triumvir prefect peter_stuyvesant raffles dci administer | |
Similar spelling: |
execute executioner executed execution executing executant executable Exocoetidae executor exhaustive executrix exactness exocet exacta excogitative exhaustively exactly |