| a. | 1. | Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; |
| 2. | of or pertaining to an executive{2} or to the group of executives within an organization; | |
| n. | 1. | An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body. |
| 2. | a person who has administrative authority over an organization or division of an organization; a manager, supervisor or administrator at a high level within an organization; |
| Noun | 1. | executive - a person responsible for the administration of a business Synonyms: executive director |
| 2. | executive - persons who administer the law | |
| 3. | executive - someone who manages a government agency or department Synonyms: administrator | |
| Adj. | 1. | executive - having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.; "the executive branch" |
EXECUTIVE, government. That power in the government which causes the laws to
be executed and obeyed: it is usually. confided to the hands of the chief
magistrate; the president of the United States is invested with this
authority under the national government; and the governor of each state has
the executive power in his hands.
2. The officer in whom is vested the executive power is also called the
executive.
3. The Constitution of the United States directs that "the executive
power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America." Art.
2, s. 1. Vide Story, Const. B. 3, c. 36.
| (operating system) | executive - The command interpreter or shell for an operating system. The term is used especially around mainframes and probably derived from UNIVAC's archaic EXEC 2 and current (in 2000) EXEC 8 operating systems. |