Meaning

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect..

Definitions by Sense

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.
3. Exclusive.
4. A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
5. The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
6. (computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.

Example Sentences

executive act

an executive officer

executive government

When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.

At the earliest practicable date military administration will cease, and will be replaced by civil administration in the form of Crown Colony Government. There will, therefore, be in the first instance, in each of the new Colonies, a Governor and an Executive Council, composed of the principal officials, with a Legislative Council consisting of a certain number of official members to whom a nominated unofficial element will be added.

[...] to make provision for municipal borrowing powers and to enable a Municipal Council to bind itself and a future Council in the exercise of its legislative and executive authority to secure loans or investments for the municipality; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

She works in an office with an executive bathroom.

Such, Mr. Cleveland, is the real character of the government, of which you are the nominal head. Such are, and have been, its lawmakers. Such are, and have been, its judges. Such have been its executives. Such is its present executive. Have you anything to say for any of them?

Word Forms

• more executive
• most executive
• exe.
• exec.
• execu.
• executives

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Use executive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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