Executive - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- persons who administer the law
- someone who manages a government agency or department (syn: administrator)
adjective
Extra examples
She has good executive skills.
He has an executive position in the company.
In the U.S., the President is the head of the executive branch of government.
The television network's executives decided not to air the controversial show.
The President is the chief executive of the U.S.
Executive Office of the President
He was the most experienced actor, a man of the very rarest executive ability.
The executive suite is on the top floor.
The chairman proposed the young executive as a candidate for promotion.
The executive famously insisted on riding the bus to work every day.
...the executive fiddled with a pen as she impatiently waited for the meeting to begin...
The executive handpicked her successor.
...some of his friends considered the job of janitor to be an ignominious fate for the laid-off executive...
He peddled his idea for a new movie to every executive in Hollywood.
...the disgraced business executive poised herself for the difficult press conference...
Word forms
singular: executive
plural: executives
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