as in administrative
suited for or relating to the directing of things
the executive skills needed to manage a large business office
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as in manager
a person who manages or directs something
a program that teaches company executives how to better manage their staffs
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Recent Examples of executive
Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 May 2026
On a volatile beauty market, 2025 was a year of major executive moves for many of beauty’s biggest players.
—Alex Wynne, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
Liaw, who served as a business development executive and on the board, has pleaded not guilty.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 May 2026
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Adjective
Ryan O’Dowd serves as an executive producer, and Deena Katz serves as co-executive producer.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 12 May 2026
On a volatile beauty market, 2025 was a year of major executive moves for many of beauty’s biggest players.
—Alex Wynne, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
Noun
This week campaign spokespeople for that group pointed to the SEC filings as evidence that the Uber’s campaign committee, called A More Affordable California, in fact seeks to pad shareholders’ and executives pockets.
—Sacbee.com, 13 May 2026
Liaw, who served as a business development executive and on the board, has pleaded not guilty.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for executive
Adjective
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ChatGPT Enterprise offers enhanced privacy protections, larger context windows, and administrative controls appropriate for law firms and legal departments handling confidential client information.—
AllBusiness,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Maduko had been placed on administrative two days before.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
16 May 2026
Noun
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On the Democratic side, Jesse Brewer, a former area manager for 7-Eleven locations, is running against Melissa Strange, a supply-chain director for an agribusiness company.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
19 May 2026
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Sitting in the Petco Park visiting dugout Monday afternoon, Dodgers general manager Brandon Gomes would have preferred to be answering a different set of questions about the team’s rotation depth.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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The George Graham managerial era of the 1980s and early ’90s — 1-0 to the Arsenal and all that — has become relevant again.—
Dean Jones,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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His Braves managerial legacy will never be matched.—
Mark Bradley for the AJC,
AJC.com,
9 May 2026
Noun
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In text messages between Musk and his employees, including OpenAI board member Shivon Zilis and a project director Sam Teller, Musk's team cheered the hire, according to correspondence made public in discovery.—
Ashley Capoot,Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
18 May 2026
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Pasricha’s wife Eiesha Pasricha is the de facto artistic director of the brand, also personally curating the retail at Gleneagles and the shop at Estelle Manor.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 May 2026
Noun
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Then, almost two years into the investigation, Langston stopped by the police station and was chatting with a different administrator, who asked Langston whether the initial search had also been conducted in an older database that not everybody on staff knew about.—
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Turn on multi-factor authentication, enable every account alert your plan offers and ask your employer or plan administrator what happens after an address, phone number or bank account change.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
Noun
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Wendy Kelly, deputy superintendent at the Redwood City School District, declined to answer questions about Agan’s hiring or say whether the school district was aware he had been accused of misconduct at two previous schools.—
Holly McDede,
ProPublica,
12 May 2026
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In March, the school board directed the superintendent to devise a plan to eliminate 3,000 job positions over three years to save about $250 million.—
Amanda Rosa,
Miami Herald,
12 May 2026
Noun
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There should be full transparency when assessments are changed and/or career scientists overruled by political appointees or other supervisors, including providing the original analyses.—
Jesse L. Goodman,
STAT,
18 May 2026
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Montgomery Steppe is a San Diego County supervisor representing District 4.—
Monica Montgomery Steppe,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
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“Executive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/executive. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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