executive

[ɪɡˈzekjətɪv]

Definition:
1. A person responsible for the administration of a business.
2. Persons who administer the law.
3. Someone who manages a government agency or department.
4. Having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc..

Use 'executive' in a sentence:

1. In March its chief executive was fired by Time's current Man of the Year, Mr Obama.
2. A successful job search needs to be as well organised as any other executive task.
3. Many busy executives have begun to practice yoga and meditation.
4. Figuring himself a franchising whiz, Katz got into gyms, executive recruiting, dentistry, hair salons and cosmetics.
5. Well, Luk found, they also scored higher on tests of executive functioning.
6. The first executive offices were constructed between 1799 and 1820.
7. An oil executive swindled £ 50,000 out of his firm.
8. They opted to put an executive committee in charge of the project rather than a single person.
9. He had been granted his own TV show by some demented executive.
10. Four executive journalists were detained for questioning by the police today.
11. But Edward Dolman, Christie's chief executive, says: "I'm pretty confident we're at the bottom."
12. He's a young, successful executive at an Internet-services company in Tokyo and has plenty of disposable budget.
13. My father is a successful senior executive.
14. Executive power is held by the president.
15. For marketing executive Kenneth Pedeleose, it meant speaking out against something he thought was ethically wrong.
16. Executives say they are leery of the proposed system.
17. Some executive members have called for his resignation.
18. He's a young, successful executive at an Internet-services company in Tokyo and has plenty of disposable budgets.
19. The president issued an executive order yesterday that calls for boat people to be returned immediately to Haiti.
20. The Chief Executive should be experienced in business administration.
21. He also served on the National Front's national executive committee.
22. A young executive named Donald Kendall thrust a cup of dark fizz into the Soviet leader's hands.
23. His rap sheet includes a recent conviction for stabbing a record executive.
24. No other executive car can offer you the same level of standard equipment at this price.
25. What is executive control system?
26. Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, made his first public appearance since going on medical leave six weeks ago.
27. These skills are subsets of an ability called executive function.
28. When an executive comes into a new job, he wants to quickly make an impact.
29. The settlement means that the three executives can return from gardening leave and start their new jobs.
30. One of the implications of the intuitive style of executive management is that "thinking" is inseparable from acting.
31. An effective use of an architect is as a consultant to the individual executive assistant teams.
32. He is respected as a very aggressive and competitive executive.
33. Tim Cook replaced Jobs as chief executive in August, was generally regarded as competent but uninspiring.
34. The heroine is a senior TV executive.
35. "It's the ultimate nightmare," a retail executive from a well-known chain admitted to TIME.
36. He urged US executives to invest billions of dollars in his country.
37. The matter should be resolved by the executive branch of government.
38. If she were involved in business, she would make a strong chief executive.
39. He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive.
40. She took over as chief executive of the Book Trust.
41. Mr Cross will assume the role of Chief Executive with a team of four directors.
42. 75 percent of chief executives come from inside the company.
43. The programme of sell-offs has been implemented by the new chief executive.
44. He used his broad executive powers to nullify decisions by local governments.
45. The most junior executive officer outranked the senior engineer officer aboard ship.
46. A successful job search needs to be as well organized as any other executive task.
47. The executive committee recommends that the procedures should satisfy certain basic requirements.
48. She has an executive position in a finance company.
49. The government, the executive and the judiciary are supposed to be separate.
50. He worked his way up from messenger boy to account executive.
51. The company's top executives had refused to listen to reason.
52. If executives fail to exploit the opportunities of networking they risk being left behind.
53. The unemployed executives include former sales managers, directors and accountants.
54. The smart executive has people he can trust doing all the real work.
55. At the highest executive levels earnings and performance aren't always correlated.