Definition of "executive" in English

adjective

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.

   • executive act
   • an executive officer
   • executive government

3. Exclusive.

   • She works in an office with an executive bathroom.

noun

1. A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.

2. The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.

3. (computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.

   • 1973, ACM Special Interest Group in Operating Systems, Fourth Symposium on Operating System Principles The second phase of the executive development proceeded through two steps as stated in Section 2. First, a failsoft executive was developed providing automatic failure detection and recovery […]