Adjective

executive (comparative more executive, superlative most executive)

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.; as, an executive act, an executive officer, executive government.

Noun

executive (plural executives)

1. A title of a chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on her/his own authority.
2. That branch of government which is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day running of the state.

Executive

Executive may refer to:

• Executive (government), branch of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy
• Executive (Lebanese magazine), monthly news magazine established in 1999
• Executive (management), senior manager in a corporation
  • Chief executive officer (CEO), one of the highest-ranking corporate officers (executives) or administrators
  • Executive director, the senior manager of an organization, company, or corporation
  • Executive Education, term used for programs at graduate-level business schools that aim to give classes for managers or entrepreneurs
  • Executive officer, high ranking member of a corporation body, government or military
  • Music executive or record executive, person within a record label who works in senior management
  • Studio executive, employee of a film studio
• Executive (operating system), the operating system for the ICL 290x range of computers
• Executive car, British term that refers to a car's size and is used to describe an automobile larger than a large family car
• Executive format, special paper size in the United States and Canada
• Executive functions or executive system, theorized cognitive system in psychology that controls and manages other cognitive processes
• The Executive, fictional belt-less raincoat in the American sitcom Seinfeld
• The Windows Executive, internal part of modern Microsoft Windows operating systems