Synonyms for executive
ɪgˈzɛk yə tɪvex·ec·u·tive

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1. executive, executive directornoun

   a person responsible for the administration of a business

   Synonyms:
   executive director, administrator

2. executivenoun

   persons who administer the law

   Synonyms:
   executive director, administrator

3. administrator, executiveadjective

   someone who manages a government agency or department

   Synonyms:
   executive director, administrator, decision maker

4. executiveadjective

   having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.

   "the executive branch"

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1. executiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   executory, not legislative

2. executivenoun

   Synonyms:
   governor, chief magistrate

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1. List of paraphrases for "executive":

   operational, governing, exécutif, executives, implementation, administrative, ejecutivo, administration, implement, implementing, ejecutivos, enforcement, frameworks, directorate, ce, direction, execution, steering, tung, implemented, general, senior

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1. Scott Adams:

   Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

2. Stephen Miller:

   Fundamentally, you're still going to have the same basic policy outcome for the country, these plainly-worded statements, made in the months leading up to and contemporaneous with the signing of the Executive Order, and, in many cases, made by the Executive himself, betray the Executive Order's stated secular purpose.

3. George Pataki:

   I defeated Mario Cuomo, and the first day in office, my first executive order, I revoked every one of the executive orders that Mario Cuomo had enacted over the past twelve years. I would do that to Barack Obama's executive orders.

4. Richard Milhous Nixon:

   I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

5. Sam Ervin:

   The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.