Thesaurus results for EXEC

exec

noun

ig-ˈzek

Definition of exec

as in executive

a person who manages or directs something a restaurant where the city's top execs like to have power lunches

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Recent Examples of exec The exec departures were among several organizational updates shared with employees by Anthony Wood and Paul Cheesebrough, Co-Chairs of Fox Digital Platforms. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2026 Only when the movie scored big at a Los Angeles preview did West Coast exec Mike Medavoy talk the UA brass into watching it. — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Nov. 2026 Also exec producing are Pernille creator Henriette Steenstrup, Bård Fjulsrud and Tanya Badendyck. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2026 Former TikTok executive Dustin Goot and former Vice exec Subrata De are both joining in senior roles, alongside media operators Alexandra Zaslow and Brannan Goetschius. — Max Tani, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for exec

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They were photographed together both at a bar with other suppliers and then also out to dinner with some other executives.

— Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 9 Nov. 2026
In many cases, boards and investors focused on ethical breaches, such as executives using company funds inappropriately or advancing the careers of romantic partners who reported to them.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Nov. 2026

Definition of executive

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This was him—sans manager and inching toward divorce with Sara Lownds, the mother of his first five children—acting on his own advice, gathering his friends and just getting onstage, high and electrified and focused and free.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2026
Danielle DeBoe Harper is the senior creative style manager at Moen.

— Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of manager

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Ballard was Newsom’s communications director from 2007 to 2010, when the outgoing governor was mayor of San Francisco.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
Anna Saavedra serves as the director of the Center for Civic Society within the University of Southern California Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service.

— Ismar Volić, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of director

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Questions also remain about the district’s disciplinary investigation, Young’s employment status and what changes, if any, administrators will make to the football program before next season.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Public school district administrators across the county pushed to get the proposition on the ballot, which, if adopted, will add more to county homeowners’ tax burden.

— Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of administrator

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Richard Barrera will be the next state superintendent of public instruction, with opponent Sonja Shaw conceding the race on Wednesday.

— Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
In 1790, Robert Morris, the superintendent of finances during the Continental Congress and a financier of the American Revolution, asked Congress to investigate his handling of the country’s finances and was exonerated of any wrongdoing.

— Gibbs Knotts, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026

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