exec

noun

ex·​ec ig-ˈzek How to pronounce exec (audio)
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Examples of exec in a Sentence

a restaurant where the city's top execs like to have power lunches
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Tech billionaires running wild, cheating execs, celebrities in space—the only choice was to laugh. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025 Wags & Walks execs are grateful for all of it. Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 15 Dec. 2025 Barcelo, who is based in Madrid, had joined Webtoon Productions from ITV Studios’s Cattleya Producciones earlier this year, while Former HBO, Lee Daniels Entertainment and HBO exec Goldberg has joined as North America film chief in 2022, and was upped to a global role in 2024. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2025 While in theory that might result in some overlapping of skill sets between her and Bloys, Holland is not known as a micromanager (just the opposite), and both execs have a reputation for getting along well with others. Josef Adalian, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exec

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of exec was in 1896

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“Exec.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exec. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.

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