executornoun [ C ]
uk/ɪɡˈzek.jə.tər/us/ɪɡˈzek.jə.t̬ɚ/specializedsomeone who makes sure that things are done according to the wishes in a dead person's will
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inheriting & bequeathing
- advance directive
- beneficiary
- bequeath
- bequest
- codicil
- cut
- heiress
- heirloom
- inheritor
- intestate
- last will and testament
- leave
- legacy
- pass
- residue
- settle sth on sb
- settle your affairs idiom
- survivor
- testament
- transfer
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Examples from literature
- And of course I desire you to be the executor.
- He says he must have the support of the other executor.
- In the first place, Robert Palmer's will distinctly stated that everything was left to the judgment of the executors.
- The next day, however, the will was actually drawn up, executed, and placed in my cousin's hands, he being the sole executor.
- When I came to be executor, there was nearly nothing to guide me as to the amount of my father's property,—and I certainly did not succeed in realising all that he was supposed to have acquired.