Usually means: Person responsible for managing organization.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word executive:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. executive, the executive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. executive, the executive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. executive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. executive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. executive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Executive, executive, executive: Wordnik
  7. executive, the executive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. executive: Wiktionary
  9. executive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. executive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. executive: Dictionary.com
  12. executive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. executive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Executive (disambiguation), Executive (government), Executive (management), Executive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Executive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. executive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. executive, executive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. executive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. THE EXECUTIVE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. executive: Free Dictionary
  21. executive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. executive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. executive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  24. executive: Rhymezone

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. executive: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Executive (business), Executive (disambiguation), Executive (government), executive: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Executive (disambiguation), executive: Encyclopedia
  3. executive: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Executive, executive: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See executives as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.
adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.
adjective:  Exclusive.
noun:  A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.
noun:  The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.
noun:  (computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.

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