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“Having been a legislator and a mayor, I particularly enjoy being a chief executive,” he said.

Reached for comment, one high-level industry executive refused to say a word.

Colfer adapted the later into a 2012 film, which he also executive produced and starred in.

All those bloodthirsty tweets and arcane exhortations and now we find out you were an advertising executive—an ad exec!

After the show, Executive Chef Michael Franey explained the process by which the theater selects its menu.

To Harrison and his wife there was no distinction between the executive and judicial branches of the law.

Polavieja, as everybody knew, was the chosen executive of the friars, whose only care was to secure their own position.

Its resolution will be put into practice with all fidelity by the executive power in its character of responsible government.

Up to that date the civil executive authority in the organized provinces was vested in the military governor.

But he was a man of marked executive ability, and when occasion demanded he wielded a facile and ready pen.

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On this page you'll find 96 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to executive, such as: managerial, governing, ruling, controlling, decision-making, and directing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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