Executive

Executive may refer to:

  • Executive (government), branch of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy
  • Executive (senior management), senior manager in a corporation
    • Chief executive officer (CEO), one of the highest-ranking corporate officers (executives) or administrators
    • Executive director, the senior manager of an organization, company, or corporation
    • Executive education, term used for programs at graduate-level business schools that aim to give classes for managers or entrepreneurs
    • Executive officer, high-ranking member of a corporation body, government or military
    • Music executive or record executive, person within a record label who works in senior management
    • Studio executive, employee of a film studio
  • Account executive, a job title given by a number of marketing agencies to usually trainee staff, who report to account managers
  • Executive (operating system), the operating system for the ICL 290x range of computers
  • Executive car, British term that refers to a car's size and is used to describe an automobile larger than a large family car
  • Executive format, special paper size in the United States and Canada
  • Executive functions or executive system, theorized cognitive system in psychology that controls and manages other cognitive processes
  • The Executive, fictional belt-less raincoat in the American sitcom Seinfeld
  • The Executive, a passenger train of the Monon Railroad
  • The Windows Executive, internal part of modern Microsoft Windows operating systems

Famous quotes containing the word executive:

    “... the wife of an executive would be a better wife had she been a secretary first. As a secretary, you learn to adjust to the boss’s moods. Many marriages would be happier if the wife would do that.”
    —Anne Bogan, U.S. executive secretary. As quoted in Working, book 1, by Studs Terkel (1973)

    “One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a sound currency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)