0 a short text that gives the most important facts or ideas contained in a longer document such as a report, study, or plan: --
Can you give me the executive summary on some of the important things to know before I start this job?
I'm not going to read all the posts. Can someone give me the executive summary?
In the executive summary, the plan is described as "charting a course for the organization" for the next four years.
"The era of cheap oil is over," says the executive summary of the report, to be published next week.
1 a document that gives the main points of a detailed report, usually provided at the beginning of the report: --
Could somebody give me the executive summary on replacing the triple clamp?
The governor's office released an "executive summary" of the bill at 5:50 p.m. and said the full measure had been sent to the speaker.
Key statistics on hunger were buried in the back of the report and barely mentioned in its executive summary or the glowing press release that accompanied it.
The board commissioned an external assessment of the museum's status, and its author wrote in the executive summary that the museum "faces several challenging transitions".
The campaigner said he hadn't seen the bill, but he liked what he saw in the executive summary.
A similar conclusion appears in the executive summary of another study.