Betekenis van executive In het Nederlands

• 0 someone in a high position, especially in business, who makes decisions and puts them into action:

  • She is now a senior executive, having worked her way up through the company.

  • The executive of the health workers' union accepted the proposed pay increase on behalf of their members.

• 1 relating to making decisions and managing businesses, or suitable for people with important jobs in business:

  • His executive skills will be very useful to the company.

  • executive cars

  • an executive suite

• 2 someone in a high position, esp. in business, who makes decisions and acts according to them:

  • [ C ] a chief executive

• 3 someone who has an important position in business, making decisions and putting them into action:

  • World Economic Forum is an annual meeting in Switzerland at which political leaders and business executives discuss economic issues.

  • a high-ranking/senior/top executive

  • an advertising/marketing/oil executive

  • company/corporate/industry executives

  • a financial/sales executive

• 4 a group of people who run an organization:

  • The executive of the health workers' union accepted the proposed pay increase on behalf of their members.

• 5 the part of a government that is responsible for making certain that laws and decisions are put into action, rather than making laws:

  • Checks and balances are provided by the separation of powers between the judiciary, the executive and the legislature.

• 6 relating to making decisions and managing businesses or government:

  • executive decision/duty An executive decision was made to move to another site.

  • The organizational pyramid had executive management at the top and supervisors and employees at the bottom.

• 7 having or relating to the power to take action on decisions:

  • executive authority/leadership/power Reshaping the culture of the corporation around the needs of the entire enterprise requires executive leadership.

  • The IMF is fully accountable to its membership, through the 24-member executive board.

• 8 relating to executives (= important people in a company who make decisions):

  • an executive appointment/job/position

  • executive bonuses/pay/salary

  • They appointed a relocation officer at executive level.

  • The interview board considered that the candidate was definitely executive material.

• 9 suitable for people with important jobs in business:

  • an executive jet

  • He had a drink in the airport executive lounge before boarding his flight.

  • He worked in the executive suite at Northwest Airlines.

• 10 expensive and of a high quality:

  • an executive car/flat/home