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executive

Designed for execution, or carrying into effect.

executive

A name for the head officer or administrator, especially one who can make important decisions. The executive of the company was criticized for his poor management. The part of government that enforces laws and judicial decisions, and is in charge of running of the state. The President is the chief executive of the United States government.

executive

a person responsible for the administration of a business having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc the executive branch persons who administer the law (= administrator) someone who manages a government agency or department

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Simple sentences

We'll need a head hunting agency to find the right man for this executive position.
She got kicked upstairs to an executive position.
Tom is an executive in an insurance company.
Tom is the chief executive officer.
Tom is executive vice-president of the Berlin Association of Beekeepers.
A Volkswagen executive received a seven-year prison for his role in the Dieselgate scandal.
I got acquainted with the chief executive.
An executive council was formed to discuss the new proposal.
The U.S. government has three branches: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial.
Dear passengers! The Minsk City Council and the Executive Committee of the City of Minsk cordially send their greetings on the occasion of the Nativity of Christ and the new year and wish you happiness, health and well-being.
I am the executive director of the museum.
Tom is a big railroad executive.
Tom is too soft to be a good executive.
Tom Jackson is the executive director.

Movie subtitles

So, I want to make you an executive producer. as long as you find out who did this, publicly humiliate them, and fire them.
Melody floats through hall and corridor, even to the executive offices, where a strange deal is being closed.
So You Can Get The Key To The Executive Floor.
And to assist me in this, I'm replacing Mr Fryer with Mr Christian who will now act as executive second in command with the rank of Acting Second Lieutenant.
Get me the executive mansion at once. It's a matter of life and death.
You insulted not only the Navy but one of the executive officers.
If you can't sound like an executive, you might try looking like one.
These boys want no part of an executive business.
Not for an executive, is it?
Believe it or not, I asked one of my many friends for a job once. executive of a big company. 2,500 employees.
Anyhow, I never did have no executive ability.
Big executive in the advertising business.
I'm an executive.
No. But, as an officer, you surely had to act in an executive capacity you had to command men, be responsible for their morale?
You were the one who made me executive chef at Ottavio's.
The Menshevik - S.-R. Executive Committee was opening the congress.
He's the executive type.
To your union leader, as much responsible for the maintenance. of our production schedule as any executive of this firm, Joe Malneck.
Incidentally, you're on the executive board.
Believe it or not, I asked one of my many friends for a job once, executive of a big company, 2,500 employees.
You sound like a big executive, De Sylva. Oh, Max.
If that rumor is right and Rokai's also an executive at Yamaoka Weaving that's a big problem.
So you're an executive of Yamaoka Weaving.
But, as an officer, you surely had to act in an executive capacity you had to command men, be responsible for their morale?
Only the executive offices are left.
Wore young-executive suits.
She was in one of her executive moods. career woman.
Store executive's son.
Oh, yes, the cold businessman, way up in his executive suite.
It's mostly executive and administrative work.
I would like you to leave two quarts of Grade A milk tomorrow. and a quarter of a pound of butter. as I am no longer just working off and on. but have accepted a position as an executive.
He's come to see us about an executive trainee appointment.
Now, fellow delegates, there comes a time in the life of every business executive when he starts thinking' about retirement.

News and current affairs

Having written a book about the hijacking of executive power in the United States in the Bush years, I found myself, in researching new developments, stumbling upon conversations online that embrace narratives of behind-the-scenes manipulation.
The recommendation to enlarge the SDR basket has been warmly backed by Christine Lagarde, the IMF's managing director, and a final decision by the Fund's executive board is expected at the end of the month.
America's founding fathers were motivated by a similar belief that unchecked power, even when democratically legitimated, could be dangerous, which is why they created a constitutional system of internally separated powers to limit the executive.
Where there is no suggestion that a matter of personal morality has had an impact on the performance of a business executive or government official, we should respect that person's privacy.
To be sure, the Brown precedent is not entirely analogous, for there the Supreme Court gave weight to foreign policy considerations in just the way that the federal executive had urged.
Many executive teams are overconfident about their company's competitive strength.
This means that no single country can block action, in contrast to the IMF executive board, which makes decisions by consensus, giving large countries like the United States de facto veto power.
For example, George W. Bush used the crisis conditions after September 11, 2001, in the service of an assertion of executive power, as well as to invade Iraq.
Taxes levied on executive bonuses have cost international banks dearly.
BRUSSELS - With the final allocation of portfolios within its executive branch, the European Commission, the European Union has completed its change of guard.
The appointment of the Italian foreign minister, Federica Mogherini, as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has been widely questioned, owing to her limited executive experience in foreign policy.
First, there was the controversial appointment of the Spaniard Jose Manuel Gonzales-Paramo to replace his countryman Domingo Solans on the Executive Board in May 2004.
Preventing small countries - as well as other big ones - from competing for specific vacant seats reduces the Executive Board's potential competency.
Giving big countries permanent seats on the Executive Board also makes it easier for their politicians to control the ECB through the appointments process.
Rebekah Brooks, the editor of The News of the World at the beginning of the phone-hacking scandal, and subsequently the chief executive of News International, Murdoch's British subsidiary, played precisely such a role.
The private gains can be measured most directly in the form of executive compensation.
If the fiction is maintained that the court was merely doing its judicial duty as it saw it, decency could still prevail: Anwar could be granted executive clemency.
There is a speech that we still need to hear, detailing five tasks that, in order to repair the damage to liberty caused by the previous administration, he must pursue as quickly as he handled the first two executive orders.
Worse, in America stock options became a preferred form of compensation - often worth more than an executive's base pay.
Despite its many successes since 1990, and the high popularity of the current president (Socialist Michelle Bachelet, Chile's first female chief executive), time is taking a toll.
Indeed, it was Shirakawa who, as BOJ Executive Director, decided in March 2006 to end - quite prematurely - the quantitative easing that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's government had implemented at the beginning of 2004.
They were suspicious of executive power, and thought that the president should have rather less discretionary power than the various King Georges of the time.
In Argentina, as in many Latin American countries, presidents have so much power that other governmental institutions' authority fades, eradicating the boundaries between the executive and the state.
Cohabitation could very soon become a problem even in the quasi-democracy of Hong Kong, if voters there on September 12 elect a legislature hostile to Tung Chee-hwa, the territory's Beijing-anointed chief executive, later this month.
That changed in 2012, when Leung Chun-ying was appointed as Hong Kong's chief executive.

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