executive
/ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɪv
/ /ɛɡˈzɛkjʊtɪv/adjective [attributive]
1Relating to or having the power to put plans or actions into effect: an executive chairman executive authority...
- The appointment of the former executive chairman of Aggreko, the power generator rentals company, was well received by analysts.
- The new executive committee has, unlike the old, a majority of his supporters.
- Stern is now executive vice president of business development.
Synonyms
administrative, decision-making, directorial, directing, controlling, managerial;
law-making, regulating;
professional, white-collar
1.1Denoting or relating to the part of a political administration with responsibility for putting into effect laws drawn up by the legislature: the executive branch of government...Often contrasted with legislative.
- There are also significant structural impediments to presidential control of the executive branch of government.
- The company now faces antitrust investigation by the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union.
- The Cabinet and its members fuse political and executive functions.
noun
1A person with senior managerial responsibility in a business: account executives the chief executive...
- Did the chief executive ask the senior manager whether such cash payments had been received?
- If you're the chief executive or managing director of a small or medium-sized company, have you asked your IT guy this specific question?
- As for Dudley, the 33-year-old is an executive with Artistic Control Management.
Synonyms
chief, head, principal, senior official, senior manager, senior administrator;
director, managing director, MD, CEO, chief executive officer, president, chairman, chairwoman, controller;
British director general
informal boss, boss man, top dog, bigwig, big wheel, big Daddy, big Chief, exec, suit
British informal guv'nor
North American informal numero uno, Mister Big, (head) honcho, big kahuna, big white chief, sachem, padrone
derogatory fat cat
1.1 [as modifier] Suitable for a senior business executive: an executive house...
- The Pentagon will lease six Gulfstream V executive jets so the big shots can fly high.
- Further work will include a refurbished lecture theatre and new executive suite.
- And it is this figure that should provide the link between business performance and executive compensation.
1.2An executive committee or other body within an organization: the union executive...
- The county executive meets within the week to consider the situation, with power to make a nomination of its own.
- True, he served on the executive of the 1922 committee until the election and has voted consistently against the extension of gay rights.
- Public unity within the DUP executive is holding - but only by a fingernail.
Synonyms
administration, leadership, management, directorate, directors;
government, legislative body
informal top brass
2 (the executive) The branch of a government responsible for putting decisions or laws into effect.For example, responsible government requires that the executive be responsible to parliament....
- If we look at what this bill is to do, we see that it will allow by Order in Council the executive to make the decisions about merging.
- The basic objection to the form of pre-charter borough governments was that the executive was responsible to the king rather than to the community.
Derivatives
executively
- The film will be executively produced by Hilary Heath with a script by Martin Sherman.
- The film, executively produced by Ansa and directed by her husband Jonee Ansa, is currently shooting in and around Macon.
- It asserted that the decision of the House of Lords in Venables was in relation to executively set tariffs, and could not be read across to judicially set tariffs.
Origin
Late Middle English: from medieval Latin executivus, from exsequi (see execute).