executive1 nounexecutive2 adjective
executiveex‧ec‧u‧tive1 /ɪɡˈzekjətɪv/ ●●○ W3 noun [countable] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a psychiatrist who specializes in executive stress
- a senior company executive
- Clifford, a former congressman, is now an executive for a large charity.
- In theory, the civil service is the non-political arm of the executive.
- Power is shared between three main branches of government: the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary.
- We were visited by a young, dynamic executive from a small computer company.
- But it is not clear whether Peter Bullock, the chief executive of Neill, will be staying.
- Certainly, Palm is increasingly targeting not only executives but the companies they work for.
- Chief executives meet with legislators and constituents to discuss proposed programs and encourage their support.
- He also managed personal accounts for certain senior executives of Pier 1, PairGain and other companies.
- Some senior executives have been accused by minority shareholders of mismanagement, nepotism, and of presiding over asset-stripping.
- Such an executive we call non-parliamentary or fixed.
Longman Language Activatorthe most powerful people in a government
the leader of a government and the other people in high positions of power: leadership of: · He will challenge Sinclair for the leadership of the Liberal Party. · The collapse of European communism in the late 1980s shocked the Chinese leadership.under the leadership of somebody/something: · Under the leadership of the Conservative Party, the gap between the rich and the poor widened considerably.
the group of important politicians who run the different departments in a government, for example education, health etc, and advise the leader of the government: · The Prime Minister has offered Stroud a position in the cabinet.cabinet minister (=one of the politicians in the cabinet): · The spy scandal involved two cabinet ministers and several civil servants.cabinet meeting (=a meeting when the cabinet discusses something): · The cabinet meeting broke up after four-and-a-half hours.
the part of a government that approves decisions and laws and is responsible for making them work: the executive: · In theory, the civil service is the non-political arm of the executive.· Power is shared between three main branches of government: the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary.
a manager someone whose job is to be in charge of a group of people, a project, a department, or a bank, shop, hotel etc: · I'd like to speak to the manager.manager of: · the advertising manager of a mail-order companybank/hotel/restaurant etc manager: · All new loans must be approved by the bank manager.marketing/sales/accounts etc manager: · She's one of our regional sales managers.
informal the person who is in charge of you at work: · Does your boss know you're looking for another job?· There's a new guy at work who's always trying to impress the boss.· The front page of the paper announced "Company bosses get record pay increases".
a manager, especially an important one: · We were visited by a young, dynamic executive from a small computer company.executive for: · Clifford, a former congressman, is now an executive for a large charity.executive stress (=an illness suffered by managers who are under a lot of pressure in their jobs): · a psychiatrist who specializes in executive stress
someone who is in charge of a group of factory workers or builders, whose job is to make sure that the workers do what the manager wants: · Anton hated the foreman, who was never satisfied with anyone's work.foreman of: · He spoke as though he were a rich landowner instead of just the foreman of a modest building firm.
someone who is in charge of a group of workers, such as cleaners or secretaries, in an office, factory, airport etc, whose job is to make sure that the workers do what the manager wants: · We still need to replace the office supervisor.supervisor of: · She has worked her way up the company and is now supervisor of 50 staff members.
the manager who is directly in charge of you in a company, rather than a more senior manager: · If you want to take a holiday, first ask your line manager.
if you report to someone in a company, they are your line manager: · Jan is based in Birmingham and reports to the Head of Marketing.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
top executives on high salariesCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
top executives on high salaries (=the three main parts of the US government)
(=that manages an organization and makes decisions for it)· He sat on the firm's Executive Committee.
· He earns a huge amount of money as a senior company executive.
(=who work for big companies)· highly paid corporate executives
(=an order from a president)· President Grant issued an executive order establishing a reservation for the Nez Perce Indians.
(=in a company)· All the company's senior executives get large bonuses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council.· Prohibition will apply to chief executives, chief officers, deputies and others who regularly advise or act on behalf of their councils.· Is the heavy burden carried by chief executives deterring good candidates?
· How would he and Georgina change their lifestyle after all those years as a corporate executive?· The Black-Scholes model also is widely used for valuing the stock options in the compensation packages of corporate executives.· How do you measure how good corporate executives are at communicating and being honest?· A fat ego can blind a corporate executive to reality like a bad cataract.· Which is why corporate executives are turning to speech coaches in droves.· Social scientists have spent decades trying to discover why some corporate chief executives make more money than others.
· The claim, drawn up by the national executive, will be discussed by a union council meeting on 14 October.· The United States is one of the few democracies that does not allow its citizens to elect their national chief executive directly.· Resignation as Solidarity chairman Walesa announced his resignation as leader of Solidarity at a meeting of its national executive on Dec. 12.· Those are three reasons why he will today be elected to Labour's national executive, writes Colin Hughes.· Mr Kinnock's compromise would have created one society, with a national executive seat if it attracted more then 3,000 members.· The union side at this level is composed of senior officers and lay negotiators from the unions' national executive committees.· Mr Kinnock will want Mr Prescott's national executive support - and may sometimes even need his constructive criticism.· The national executive of the union called out on strike all its members on provincial newspapers.
· Hospitality is the magazine for professional managers in the hotel and catering industry and now reaching all of its senior executives.· As a result, he is using it as an opportunity to help find a paying job as a senior executive.· While flying home I sat next to a senior executive with a large international organization.· A useful starting point is to inquire about the backgrounds of each of the senior executives.· Some of our most telling insights have occurred when we have accompanied a senior executive to the field.
· Only 36 percent of managers and executives received double-digit pay rises, though top executives did markedly better.· General managers and top executives work to ensure that their organizations meet these objectives.· Large organisations languish and die because the top executives listen only to echoes.· At the time, Collyar was the top female executive of a Bay Area computer firm.· It has lost two top executives in the past week alone.· The petticoat Mafia at the top of the organisation always knew what was going on, often before the top executives themselves.· Projected employment growth of general managers and top executives varies widely among industries.
· Fishing was the latest accomplishment which Miles thought the young executive should not be without.· Unlike their parents, these younger executives expected much, having grown up with ever-increasing affluence.· In my mind at least I was already the smartly turned-out, bright and efficient young executive that I aspired to be.· The promotion makes him the youngest chief executive of a major Wall Street firm.· Alan Milburn smart young executive seeking managerial post in progressive company.· It's the other things, like the Exhilarator - a playground for young executives.· He joined the Liberal Party in 1968 and served on the Young Liberals' executive committee.· In the Lymington River, Tomm Bull-Dwyer's six young executives lay in their berths trying to remember some nautical words.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a manager in an organization or company who helps make important decisions: - After being promoted to Sergeant-Major, Cottle was summoned before a board to see if he were officer material.
- Apart from the player's recent dip in form I don't believe he is officer material.
a marketing executivesenior/top executive top executives on high salaries → Chief Executive2the executive the part of a government that makes sure decisions and laws work well → judiciary, legislature3 British English a group of people who are in charge of an organization and make the rules: the union’s executiveexecutive1 nounexecutive2 adjective
executiveexecutive2 ●●○ adjective [only before noun] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- an executive committee
- the executive washroom
- Determine how skills can be obtained and take executive action either to recruit or to develop existing staff.
- Howard Patrick, executive administrator of Cannon County, has been determined to turn things around.
- I conduct executive searches for senior-level management, so I know a fair bit about how these companies are managed.
- In the twentieth century, however, presidents had increasingly made use of executive agreements as instruments of foreign policy.
- Robert Altman is one of its executive producers.
- The accounts also provide details of the gains so far on executive share options in the merged company.
- We have too many executive sessions and conferences and retreats.
- While productivity, profits, executive pay and the stock market keep going up, workers' incomes keep going down.
WORD SETS
associated company, nounboardroom, nounBros., cartel, nounchain, nounCo., collective, nouncom, concern, nounconglomerate, nouncontractor, nounco-op, nouncooperative, adjectivecooperative, nounCorp., corporate, adjectivecorporation, noundivision, noundivisional, adjectiveempire, nounenterprise, nounexecutive, adjectiveexpand, verbexpansion, nounfail, verbgiant, noungroup, nounInc., incorporated, adjectiveindie, nounindustrial espionage, nounin-house, adjectiveinside, adverbinterest, nounjoint-stock company, nounlimited company, nounLtd, Messrs, multinational, adjectivemultinational, nounnewspaper, nounoutsourcing, nounparent company, nounpayroll, nounplc, nounpractice, nounprofit and loss account, nounproprietary, adjectivepty, public company, nounpublic corporation, nounpublic limited company, nounreceivership, nounregistered office, nounshipper, nounsubsidiary, nounsupplier, nountakeover, nountop-heavy, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a commission with executive powers executive toys (=objects to play with at work)COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a commission with executive powers (=a group of people who have the power to make decisions)
executive toys (=objects to play with at work) (=the three main parts of the US government)
(=that manages an organization and makes decisions for it)· He sat on the firm's Executive Committee.
· He earns a huge amount of money as a senior company executive.
(=who work for big companies)· highly paid corporate executives
(=an order from a president)· President Grant issued an executive order establishing a reservation for the Nez Perce Indians.
(=in a company)· All the company's senior executives get large bonuses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· On the other hand, more information did become available and there was more scrutiny of executive action.· The regulation of financial affairs involves inpart legislative action, inpart executive action.· Determine how skills can be obtained and take executive action either to recruit or to develop existing staff.· This has the great plus of achieving a certain coherence and integrity through the whole of the legislative programme and executive actions.· Theoretically, there is no reason why policy initiatives and executive action should not be the responsibility of individual departments.
· I had worked for many years as an administrative assistant and an executive assistant.· His second choice, they said, is his executive assistant, William Keefer.· Five days later, Lee, who was by then an executive assistant, was fired.· Brown hired longtime aide Eleanor Johns as executive assistant to the mayor, and named campaign scheduler Whitney Schwartz as appointments secretary.· My first executive assistant was Hu Tsang, a thirty-three year-old graduate of the Kennedy School.
· It also recognises that day-to-day business and executive authority is vested in line management.· This provision was overturned by the Supreme Court as a legislative intrusion on the executive authority of the president.· Together, these two bodies constitute the bulk of legislative and executive authority within the Community.· The changes were necessary, Walesa had said in a speech to the Sejm, to strengthen executive authority.· He was succeeded by his eldest son, Prince Hans Adam, who had taken over executive authority in 1984.· The Crown remains the supreme executive authority, although not the sole one.· The monarch retains largely formal prerogatives, exercising executive authority through the Council of Ministers.
· This Council had been firmly established as an advisory and executive board by the start of the fifteenth century.· Its executive board is made up of half education and half business and community leaders.· He said last week that chess is on the agenda for the next International Olympic Committee executive board meeting.· The whole executive board was enraged.· In the past, new members were chosen by Samaranch and his executive board and rubber-stamped by the membership.· John Renshaw, chairman of its executive board, said that 90 % of current general anaesthetics were necessary.
· In May 1990 it adopted statutes and elected a five-member presidium and executive body consisting of 10 people.
· In most Western democracies in the twentieth century, legislatures have lost a great deal of ground to executive branches.· And that meant both the legislative and executive branches.· They were subject to transfer, but the executive branch was unable to interfere with specific decisions.· Before these committees existed, Congress had no way to evaluate the budget priorities given by the executive branch.· He is paid $ 148, 400 a year to preside over what is the largest civilian agency in the executive branch.· It must pursue policies in both its judicial and executive branches that uphold an international rule of law.· Congress and the executive branch are often too immobilized by internal problems of political survival to take action on great national questions.
· The blend of executive car and diesel engine works extremely well.· You feel as if you are inside a big executive car.· The main reason is that most executive cars in Britain are bought by companies for their managers and directors.
· Tony Millar resigned as executive chairman of Albert Fisher.· Paul Myners, 51, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Guardian Media Group.
· It ousted Mr Stempel as chairman of the board's executive committee which effectively runs the company between monthly board meetings.· Dale Horowitz was the member of the executive committee who played the role of human being.· At that time, management sent an executive committee to observe the rumored chaos on the sales floor.· As the executive committee became more and more unwieldy, the officers' group began to operate more freely.· Under Dine, the ruling executive committee tripled in size.· Such is the spark of creativity generated by the presence of a member of the executive committee demanding to be asked questions.· We were going into an executive committee meeting for the firm at the Waldorf.
· Scott Williams, director of marketing; and Charles E.. West, senior executive director.· Certainly, says executive director Serrin Foster, the group favors changes in the law that would end legal abortions.
· Bob Merry has been named publisher of Congressional Quarterly after six years as executive editor.· In the novel, the character based on Rense herself is among the suspects in the murder of executive editor Beau Paxton.· He pulled the same junk with Star executive editor Darth Auslander.
· Mr Fowler has conceded that about 100 higher executive officer posts are threatened, but staff fear more jobs could be lost.· McGrory is now chief executive officer of Price Enterprises.· They may even advance to peak corporate positions such as chief operating officer or chief executive officer.· Chief executive officers and other top executives often become members of the board of directors of one or more firms.· And Ed Prince is the chief executive officer of his own prosperous and admired corporation.· As president, he succeeds Anthony Autorino, 56, who remains chairman and chief executive officer.
· The longevity of a president's laws, regulations and executive orders depends in part on the legal challenges to them.· An executive order to revoke federal contracts of businesses that hire illegal workers.· Cobbled together from 26 provisional decrees and executive orders, the economic-recovery programme is an ambitious inventory of investment and austerity.· Declining role of Congress, with government run increasing by presidential executive order.
· This arrangement proved unsatisfactory because there was no corresponding transfer of executive power.· It alone has the right to choose from among its members its own representative, to whom it delegates executive power.· Elections to district assemblies with executive powers were held in December 1988 and January and February 1989.· The Constitution confers on the President the whole executive power.· There is also a national advisory body, without executive powers, the Bishops' Committee on Church Music.· None the less, in most sociopolitical systems a few people do assume the positions of executive power.· The council would assume legislative, judicial and executive powers.· The Charterists have a case for deflating executive power.
· In an attempt to quieten things down, executive producer George Harrison arranged for a press conference in London.· But they are in a competitive business, under pressure from executive producers, sales managers, and sponsors to draw audiences.· At this meeting are Radio 1's daytime producers and a chairperson who is usually the executive producer of weekday daytime shows.· The executive producer is responsible for the overall product.· She ruled out topical references and jokes, understanding perfectly that her executive producer was incapable of appreciating either.· Its creator and executive producer is, perhaps surprisingly, David Jacobs.· Pat McMillen, show secretary in 1967 and now executive producer, has been warming up the audience for 29 years.
· Bromley Smith, executive secretary of the National Security Council.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1relating to the job of managing a business or organization and making decisions: - After being promoted to Sergeant-Major, Cottle was summoned before a board to see if he were officer material.
- Apart from the player's recent dip in form I don't believe he is officer material.
a commission with executive powersexecutive body/committee etc (=a group of people who have the power to make decisions)2for the use of people who have important jobs in a company: the executive dining-room3expensive and designed for people who earn a lot of moneyexecutive cars/homes etc executive toys (=objects to play with at work)