ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Executor

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɚ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Executor is a noun meaning A person who carries out some task.

Meaning

A person who carries out some task.

More Meanings

  1. (computing) A component of a system that executes or runs something.
  2. (law) Someone appointed by a testator to administer their estate in accordance with their will; an administrator.
  3. (obsolete) An executioner.

Example Sentences

literary executor
The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, / Delivering o'er to executors pale / The lazy yawning drone.
When searching for a solution is unnecessary, then the program executor "doesn't care" which solution is generated nor how it is obtained.
This manner can no longer be considered "folk-song," yet neither can it be taken as "art-song," at least not conscious art, for the executors, the chazzanim, did not know of any theory of music and modulation.

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include implementer, access, enforcer, perpetrator, performer, gunman.

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