What does executiVe mean?
Definitions for executiVe
ɪgˈzɛk yə tɪvex·ec·u·tive
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Princeton's WordNet
executive, executive directornoun
a person responsible for the administration of a business
executivenoun
persons who administer the law
administrator, executiveadjective
someone who manages a government agency or department
executiveadjective
having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.
"the executive branch"
GCIDE
Executiveadjective
of or pertaining to an executive or to the group of executives within an organization; as, executive compensation increased more rapidly than wages in the 1980's; the executive suite.
Executivenoun
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
Wiktionary
executivenoun
A title of a chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on her/his own authority.
executivenoun
That branch of government which is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
executiveadjective
Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.
executiveadjective
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.
Etymology: From executif.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Executiveadjective
Etymology: from execute.
They are the nimblest, agil, strongest instruments, fittest to be executive of the commands of the souls. Matthew Hale.
The Roman emperors were possessed of the whole legislative as well as executive power. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 51.
Hobbes confounds the executive with the legislative power, though all well instituted states have ever placed them in different hands. Jonathan Swift.
ChatGPT
executive
An executive is a person or group of individuals at the highest level of management within an organization, company, or business who have the authority to make large scale decisions, set strategic directions, establish policies, and manage overall operations. Their role also requires them to represent the entity to shareholders, government entities, and the general public. Examples include CEO, general manager, president or director.
Webster Dictionary
Executiveadjective
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
Executivenoun
an impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body
Etymology: [Cf.F. excutif.]
The Roycroft Dictionary
executive
A man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.
Editors Contribution
executive
A person or group of people with the official authority and power to govern or manage a form of unity assembly, unity council, unity legislature, unity senate, house of representatives, unity government, local unity government, regional unity government, national unity government, european unity government and international unity government., business, company, enterprise or organization.
The executive body are efficient in how they manage their workload.
Submitted by MaryC on March 11, 2020
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'executiVe' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1319
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'executiVe' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2033
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'executiVe' in Nouns Frequency: #507
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of executiVe in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of executiVe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of executiVe in a Sentence
The hypocritical words that come from Read MoreShe tell me nothing. We have very, very strong leadership in this city. We have a very strong mayor with very strong values, a very strong county executive in Rich Fitzgerald. We have people who stand by us, who believed in values — not just Jewish values, but believe in values — and those are not the values of this President and I do not welcome him to Pittsburgh.
Bankhaus Metzler analyst Juergen Pieper:
Even Chief Executive Matthias Mueller as a former Porsche CEO may need to ask himself whether he bears some responsibility.
They allowed partisan and personal issues to carry the country over the cliff where the executive is ruling by decree and there is the greatest likelihood of political paralysis and street violence. These issues should have been resolved two years ago and they have been allowed to fester and now we are about to see the explosion.
We are very focused on increasing the number of female financial advisers and the number of women in our executive leadership team.
The executive branch strategy mostly seems to be a blanket rejection of all attempts at oversight, regardless of the issue, up until the election, so any time the calendar is accelerated that probably favors Congress.
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- تنفيذيArabic
- изпълнителен, изпълнителна властBulgarian
- výkonný ředitel, výkonný, exekutiva, moc výkonnáCzech
- Exekutive, exekutivGerman
- διοικητικό στέλεχοςGreek
- ejecutivoSpanish
- اجراییPersian
- toimeenpaneva elin, toimeenpaneva, johtaja, liikkeenjohdollinenFinnish
- administrateur, exécutif, cadre, directeur, gestionnaireFrench
- कार्यकारीHindi
- dirigenteItalian
- מְנַהֵלHebrew
- エグゼクティブJapanese
- នីតិប្រតិបត្តិKhmer
- uitvoerende machtDutch
- beehazʼą́ąnii biłʼoʼnishjíNavajo, Navaho
- wykonawczyPolish
- [[исполнительный]] [[директор]], [[исполнительный, администратор, исполнительныйRussian
- izvršniSlovene
- mtendajiSwahili
- ฝ่ายบริหารThai
- 执行Chinese
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