executive

About 34.87 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.
2. adjective Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.

   executive act

3. adjective Exclusive.

   She works in an office with an executive bathroom.

4. noun A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
5. noun The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
6. noun A committee that manages the day-to-day running of an organisation. An executive committee.

   She was on the executive of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers.

7. noun A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.

Similar words

administrator executive director execution leading guidance perform control leader application operating

Often followed by

committee director council and branch officer power order board

Word family

executives