Definition of Executive

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Executive

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc.

An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.

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Executive Quotations

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
Steven Wright

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
James Madison

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
John D. Rockefeller

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.
George W. Bush

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
George W. Bush

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Fred Allen

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson

Executive Translations

executive in Italian is esecutivo, esercente

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