I. noun
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a company director/executive
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He earns a huge amount of money as a senior company executive.
a senior executive (= in a company )
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All the company's senior executives get large bonuses.
an executive committee (= that manages an organization and makes decisions for it )
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He sat on the firm's Executive Committee.
an executive order (= an order from a president )
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President Grant issued an executive order establishing a reservation for the Nex Perce Indians.
chief executive officer
Chief Executive
corporate executives/managers (= who work for big companies )
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highly paid corporate executives
executive privilege
the executive/judicial/legislative branch (= the three main parts of the US government )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
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I am not willing to be interviewed only to be compared with the chief executive of some Midlands council.
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Prohibition will apply to chief executives , chief officers, deputies and others who regularly advise or act on behalf of their councils.
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Is the heavy burden carried by chief executives deterring good candidates?
corporate
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How would he and Georgina change their lifestyle after all those years as a corporate executive ?
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The Black-Scholes model also is widely used for valuing the stock options in the compensation packages of corporate executives .
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How do you measure how good corporate executives are at communicating and being honest?
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A fat ego can blind a corporate executive to reality like a bad cataract.
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Which is why corporate executives are turning to speech coaches in droves.
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Social scientists have spent decades trying to discover why some corporate chief executives make more money than others.
national
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The claim, drawn up by the national executive , will be discussed by a union council meeting on 14 October.
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The United States is one of the few democracies that does not allow its citizens to elect their national chief executive directly.
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Resignation as Solidarity chairman Walesa announced his resignation as leader of Solidarity at a meeting of its national executive on Dec. 12.
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Those are three reasons why he will today be elected to Labour's national executive , writes Colin Hughes.
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Mr Kinnock's compromise would have created one society, with a national executive seat if it attracted more then 3,000 members.
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The union side at this level is composed of senior officers and lay negotiators from the unions' national executive committees.
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Mr Kinnock will want Mr Prescott's national executive support - and may sometimes even need his constructive criticism.
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The national executive of the union called out on strike all its members on provincial newspapers.
senior
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Hospitality is the magazine for professional managers in the hotel and catering industry and now reaching all of its senior executives .
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As a result, he is using it as an opportunity to help find a paying job as a senior executive .
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While flying home I sat next to a senior executive with a large international organization.
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A useful starting point is to inquire about the backgrounds of each of the senior executives .
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Some of our most telling insights have occurred when we have accompanied a senior executive to the field.
top
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Only 36 percent of managers and executives received double-digit pay rises, though top executives did markedly better.
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General managers and top executives work to ensure that their organizations meet these objectives.
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Large organisations languish and die because the top executives listen only to echoes.
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At the time, Collyar was the top female executive of a Bay Area computer firm.
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It has lost two top executives in the past week alone.
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The petticoat Mafia at the top of the organisation always knew what was going on, often before the top executives themselves.
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Projected employment growth of general managers and top executives varies widely among industries.
young
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Fishing was the latest accomplishment which Miles thought the young executive should not be without.
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Unlike their parents, these younger executives expected much, having grown up with ever-increasing affluence.
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In my mind at least I was already the smartly turned-out, bright and efficient young executive that I aspired to be.
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The promotion makes him the youngest chief executive of a major Wall Street firm.
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Alan Milburn smart young executive seeking managerial post in progressive company.
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It's the other things, like the Exhilarator - a playground for young executives .
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He joined the Liberal Party in 1968 and served on the Young Liberals' executive committee.
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In the Lymington River, Tomm Bull-Dwyer's six young executives lay in their berths trying to remember some nautical words.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
officer/executive etc material
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After being promoted to Sergeant-Major, Cottle was summoned before a board to see if he were officer material .
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Apart from the player's recent dip in form I don't believe he is officer material .
the Chief Executive
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a psychiatrist who specializes in executive stress
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a senior company executive
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Clifford, a former congressman, is now an executive for a large charity.
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In theory, the civil service is the non-political arm of the executive .
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Power is shared between three main branches of government: the executive , the legislative, and the judiciary.
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We were visited by a young, dynamic executive from a small computer company.
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But it is not clear whether Peter Bullock, the chief executive of Neill, will be staying.
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Certainly, Palm is increasingly targeting not only executives but the companies they work for.
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Chief executives meet with legislators and constituents to discuss proposed programs and encourage their support.
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He also managed personal accounts for certain senior executives of Pier 1, PairGain and other companies.
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Some senior executives have been accused by minority shareholders of mismanagement, nepotism, and of presiding over asset-stripping.
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Such an executive we call non-parliamentary or fixed.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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On the other hand, more information did become available and there was more scrutiny of executive action .
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The regulation of financial affairs involves inpart legislative action , inpart executive action.
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Determine how skills can be obtained and take executive action either to recruit or to develop existing staff.
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This has the great plus of achieving a certain coherence and integrity through the whole of the legislative programme and executive actions .
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Theoretically, there is no reason why policy initiatives and executive action should not be the responsibility of individual departments.
assistant
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I had worked for many years as an administrative assistant and an executive assistant.
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His second choice, they said, is his executive assistant , William Keefer.
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Five days later, Lee, who was by then an executive assistant , was fired.
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Brown hired longtime aide Eleanor Johns as executive assistant to the mayor, and named campaign scheduler Whitney Schwartz as appointments secretary.
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My first executive assistant was Hu Tsang, a thirty-three year-old graduate of the Kennedy School.
authority
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It also recognises that day-to-day business and executive authority is vested in line management.
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This provision was overturned by the Supreme Court as a legislative intrusion on the executive authority of the president.
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Together, these two bodies constitute the bulk of legislative and executive authority within the Community.
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The changes were necessary, Walesa had said in a speech to the Sejm, to strengthen executive authority .
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He was succeeded by his eldest son, Prince Hans Adam, who had taken over executive authority in 1984.
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The Crown remains the supreme executive authority , although not the sole one.
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The monarch retains largely formal prerogatives, exercising executive authority through the Council of Ministers.
board
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This Council had been firmly established as an advisory and executive board by the start of the fifteenth century.
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Its executive board is made up of half education and half business and community leaders.
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He said last week that chess is on the agenda for the next International Olympic Committee executive board meeting.
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The whole executive board was enraged.
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In the past, new members were chosen by Samaranch and his executive board and rubber-stamped by the membership.
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John Renshaw, chairman of its executive board , said that 90 % of current general anaesthetics were necessary.
body
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In May 1990 it adopted statutes and elected a five-member presidium and executive body consisting of 10 people.
branch
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In most Western democracies in the twentieth century, legislatures have lost a great deal of ground to executive branches .
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And that meant both the legislative and executive branches .
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They were subject to transfer, but the executive branch was unable to interfere with specific decisions.
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Before these committees existed, Congress had no way to evaluate the budget priorities given by the executive branch .
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He is paid $ 148, 400 a year to preside over what is the largest civilian agency in the executive branch .
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It must pursue policies in both its judicial and executive branches that uphold an international rule of law.
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Congress and the executive branch are often too immobilized by internal problems of political survival to take action on great national questions.
car
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The blend of executive car and diesel engine works extremely well.
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You feel as if you are inside a big executive car .
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The main reason is that most executive cars in Britain are bought by companies for their managers and directors.
chairman
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Tony Millar resigned as executive chairman of Albert Fisher.
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Paul Myners, 51, has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Guardian Media Group.
committee
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It ousted Mr Stempel as chairman of the board's executive committee which effectively runs the company between monthly board meetings.
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Dale Horowitz was the member of the executive committee who played the role of human being.
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At that time, management sent an executive committee to observe the rumored chaos on the sales floor.
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As the executive committee became more and more unwieldy, the officers' group began to operate more freely.
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Under Dine, the ruling executive committee tripled in size.
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Such is the spark of creativity generated by the presence of a member of the executive committee demanding to be asked questions.
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We were going into an executive committee meeting for the firm at the Waldorf.
director
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Scott Williams, director of marketing; and Charles E.. West, senior executive director.
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Certainly, says executive director Serrin Foster, the group favors changes in the law that would end legal abortions.
editor
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Bob Merry has been named publisher of Congressional Quarterly after six years as executive editor .
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In the novel, the character based on Rense herself is among the suspects in the murder of executive editor Beau Paxton.
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He pulled the same junk with Star executive editor Darth Auslander.
officer
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Mr Fowler has conceded that about 100 higher executive officer posts are threatened, but staff fear more jobs could be lost.
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McGrory is now chief executive officer of Price Enterprises.
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They may even advance to peak corporate positions such as chief operating officer or chief executive officer.
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Chief executive officers and other top executives often become members of the board of directors of one or more firms.
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And Ed Prince is the chief executive officer of his own prosperous and admired corporation.
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As president, he succeeds Anthony Autorino, 56, who remains chairman and chief executive officer .
order
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The longevity of a president's laws, regulations and executive orders depends in part on the legal challenges to them.
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An executive order to revoke federal contracts of businesses that hire illegal workers.
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Cobbled together from 26 provisional decrees and executive orders , the economic-recovery programme is an ambitious inventory of investment and austerity.
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Declining role of Congress, with government run increasing by presidential executive order .
power
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This arrangement proved unsatisfactory because there was no corresponding transfer of executive power .
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It alone has the right to choose from among its members its own representative, to whom it delegates executive power .
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Elections to district assemblies with executive powers were held in December 1988 and January and February 1989.
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The Constitution confers on the President the whole executive power .
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There is also a national advisory body, without executive powers , the Bishops' Committee on Church Music.
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None the less, in most sociopolitical systems a few people do assume the positions of executive power .
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The council would assume legislative, judicial and executive powers .
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The Charterists have a case for deflating executive power .
producer
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In an attempt to quieten things down, executive producer George Harrison arranged for a press conference in London.
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But they are in a competitive business, under pressure from executive producers , sales managers, and sponsors to draw audiences.
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At this meeting are Radio 1's daytime producers and a chairperson who is usually the executive producer of weekday daytime shows.
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The executive producer is responsible for the overall product.
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She ruled out topical references and jokes, understanding perfectly that her executive producer was incapable of appreciating either.
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Its creator and executive producer is, perhaps surprisingly, David Jacobs.
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Pat McMillen, show secretary in 1967 and now executive producer , has been warming up the audience for 29 years.
secretary
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Bromley Smith, executive secretary of the National Security Council.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an executive committee
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the executive washroom
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Determine how skills can be obtained and take executive action either to recruit or to develop existing staff.
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Howard Patrick, executive administrator of Cannon County, has been determined to turn things around.
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I conduct executive searches for senior-level management, so I know a fair bit about how these companies are managed.
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In the twentieth century, however, presidents had increasingly made use of executive agreements as instruments of foreign policy.
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Robert Altman is one of its executive producers.
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The accounts also provide details of the gains so far on executive share options in the merged company.
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We have too many executive sessions and conferences and retreats.
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While productivity, profits, executive pay and the stock market keep going up, workers' incomes keep going down.