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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
executive
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a company director/executive
▪ He earns a huge amount of money as a senior company executive.
a senior executive (=in a company)
▪ All the company's senior executives get large bonuses.
an executive committee (=that manages an organization and makes decisions for it)
▪ He sat on the firm's Executive Committee.
an executive order (=an order from a president)
▪ President Grant issued an executive order establishing a reservation for the Nex Perce Indians.
chief executive officer
Chief Executive
corporate executives/managers (=who work for big companies)
▪ highly paid corporate executives
executive privilege
the executive/judicial/legislative branch (=the three main parts of the US government)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
▪ 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?
corporate
▪ 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.
national
▪ 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.
senior
▪ 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.
top
▪ 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.
young
▪ 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
officer/executive etc material
▪ 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.
the Chief Executive
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
▪ 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.
assistant
▪ 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.
authority
▪ 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.
board
▪ 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.
body
▪ In May 1990 it adopted statutes and elected a five-member presidium and executive body consisting of 10 people.
branch
▪ 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.
car
▪ 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.
chairman
▪ Tony Millar resigned as executive chairman of Albert Fisher.
▪ Paul Myners, 51, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Guardian Media Group.
committee
▪ 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.
director
▪ 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.
editor
▪ 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.
officer
▪ 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.
order
▪ 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.
power
▪ 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.
producer
▪ 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.
secretary
▪ Bromley Smith, executive secretary of the National Security Council.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an executive committee
▪ the executive washroom
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ 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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Executive

Executive \Ex*ec"u*tive\, a. [Cf.F. ex['e]cutif.]

  1. Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc.

    Note: In government, executive is distinguished from legislative and judicial; legislative being applied to the organ or organs of government which make the laws; judicial, to that which interprets and applies the laws; executive, to that which carries them into effect or secures their due performance.

  2. of or pertaining to an executive[2] or to the group of executives within an organization; as, executive compensation increased more rapidly than wages in the 1980's; the executive suite.

Executive

Executive \Ex*ec"u*tive\, n.

  1. An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.

  2. a person who has administrative authority over an organization or division of an organization; a manager, supervisor or administrator at a high level within an organization; as, all executives of the company were given stock options

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
executive

mid-15c., "performed, carried out;" 1640s, "of the branch of government that carries out the laws," from Middle French executif, from Latin executivus, from past participle stem of exequi "follow after; carry out, accomplish" (see execution). The noun in this sense is from 1776, as a branch of government charged with the execution and enforcement of the laws. Meaning "high-ranking businessman" is 1902 in American English; hence the adjectival sense "stylish, luxurious, costly" (1970s). Executive privilege is attested by 1805, American English.

Wiktionary
executive

a. 1 Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect. 2 Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.; as, an executive act, an executive officer, executive government. n. 1 A title of a chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on her/his own authority. 2 That branch of government which is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.

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WordNet
executive

adj. having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.; "the executive branch"

executive

  1. n. a person responsible for the administration of a business [syn: executive director]

  2. persons who administer the law

  3. someone who manages a government agency or department [syn: administrator]

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Wikipedia
Executive (government)

The executive is the organ that exercises authority in and holds responsibility for the governance of a state. The executive executes and enforces law.

In political systems based on the principle of separation of powers, authority is distributed among several branches (executive, legislative, judicial) — an attempt to prevent the concentration of power in the hands of a small group of people. In such a system, the executive does not pass laws (the role of the legislature) or interpret them (the role of the judiciary). Instead, the executive enforces the law as written by the legislature and interpreted by the judiciary. The executive can be the source of certain types of law, such as a decree or executive order. Executive bureaucracies are commonly the source of regulations.

In the Westminster political system, the principle of separation of powers is not as entrenched. Members of the executive, called ministers, are also members of the legislature, and hence play an important part in both the writing and enforcing of law.

In this context, the executive consists of a leader(s) of an office or multiple offices. Specifically, the top leadership roles of the executive branch may include:

In a presidential system, the leader of the executive is both the head of state and head of government. In a parliamentary system, a cabinet minister responsible to the legislature is the head of government, while the head of state is usually a largely ceremonial monarch or president.

Executive (magazine)

Executive is an English language monthly business magazine published in Beirut, Lebanon. The magazine is one of the major publications concerning economic and financial matters across the Middle East and North Africa ( MENA) region.

Executive

Executive may refer to:

  • Executive (government), branch of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy
  • Executive ( senior management), senior manager in a corporation
    • Chief executive officer (CEO), one of the highest-ranking corporate officers (executives) or administrators
    • Executive director, the senior manager of an organization, company, or corporation
    • Executive education, term used for programs at graduate-level business schools that aim to give classes for managers or entrepreneurs
    • Executive officer, high-ranking member of a corporation body, government or military
    • Business executive, a person responsible for running an organization
    • Music executive or record executive, person within a record label who works in senior management
    • Studio executive, employee of a film studio
  • Account executive, a job title given by a number of marketing agencies to usually trainee staff, who report to account managers
  • Executive (operating system), the operating system for the ICL 290x range of computers
  • Executive car, in Britain: an automobile larger than a large family car
  • Executive functions or executive system, theorized cognitive system in psychology that controls and manages other cognitive processes
  • The Executive, fictional belt-less raincoat in the American sitcom Seinfeld
  • The Windows Executive, internal part of modern Microsoft Windows operating systems
  • Executive paper size (often )
  • Chrysler Executive, a car offered 1983–1986
  • Sinclair Executive, an electronic calculator offered in the early 1970s
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Usage examples of "executive".

But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

The proposed acquiescence of the National Executive in any reasonable temporary State arrangement for the freed people is made with the view of possibly modifying the confusion and destitution which must at best attend all classes by a total revolution of labor throughout whole States.

But as the breach between himself and Congress widened, as the bitterness between the partisans of the Executive and of the Legislative Departments grew more intense, the belief became general, that, as soon as Congress should adjourn, there would be a removal of all Federal officers throughout the Union who were not faithful to the principles, and did not respond to the exactions, of the Administration.

Where, a second earlier, there had been a squad of InfiniDim Enterprises executives with a rocket launcher standing on an elegant terraced plaza paved with large slabs of lustrous stone cut from the ancient alabastrum quarries of Zentalquabula there was now, instead, a bit of a pit with nasty bits in it.

The executive department having thus elected to waive any right to free itself from the obligation to deliver up its own citizens, it is the plain duty of this court to recognize the obligation to surrender the appellant as one imposed by the treaty as the supreme law of the land as affording authority for the warrant of extradition.

Commercial agreements nowadays are usually executive agreements contracted by authorization of Congress itself.

They got away with a member of the Scottish executive having a dildo jammed up his bahookie by a piece of telegenic jail-bait.

There must be three parts to government--executive, legislative, and judicial--and to achieve balance it was essential that it be a strong executive, a bicameral legislature, and an independent judiciary.

On September 24, Hillary and I hosted an event in the Old Executive Office Building to celebrate the success of bipartisan efforts to increase the adoption of children out of the foster-care system.

Yet Times executives chose to look the other way again and again and continued to fast-track Blair for promotions until the bloggers and other critics uncovered his lies.

John Bonano, a telephone company executive, of his brief experience as an operator providing directory assistance.

The news was too important, the need for a prompt and appropriate response too critical, for the relevant information to wend its way to the Chief Executive by means of the usual ruthlessly distilled and bowdlerized written report.

Three nicely buffed executive wives without husbands, down from the large stone houses in the hills to the west, idled over glasses of chardonnay in the nonsmoking section.

Strolling along the network of hard-packed earthen paths that connected the thatched huts, the Trouts could almost forget that their entourage included a mysterious and beautiful white goddess in a jaguar-skin bikini and a silent escort of six armed Chulo Indians painted the colors of an executive jet.

I bring you Comate Jeremiah Kleiser of the National Executive Committee.