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executive

[ig-zek-yuh-tiv] / ɪgˈzɛk yə tɪv /
ADJECTIVE
administrative
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Years of congressional investigations and in-depth reporting had made the country aware of massive abuses of power by the executive branch.

From Salon

A lot depends on Big Oil, but some executives are wary.

From Los Angeles Times

They wanted to learn more about “global citizens with $30 million to $1 billion+ in assets,” one of the consultants wrote in an email to another Core Club executive.

From The Wall Street Journal

But that hasn’t stopped foreign academics, officials and business executives from trying to find out—and some are turning to arcane tea leaf-reading techniques dating back to the era of Mao Zedong.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lawrence Newman, chief executive of Beauty Tech Group, pointed to the city's five universities and "the stickiness of people wanting to live here post-university".

From BBC