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Executive - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Executive : adj : having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.;
"the executive branch"
(noun)
1: a person responsible for the administration of a business
[syn: executive director]
2: persons who administer the law
3: someone who manages a government agency or department [syn:
administrator]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Executive : \Ex*ec"u*tive\, n.
An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who
administers the government, whether king, president, or
governor; the governing person or body.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Executive : \Ex*ec"u*tive\, a. [Cf.F. ex['e]cutif.]
Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect;
as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or
pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of
affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties,
officer, department, etc.
Note: In government, executive is distinguished from
legislative and judicial; legislative being applied to
the organ or organs of government which make the laws;
judicial, to that which interprets and applies the
laws; executive, to that which carries them into effect
or secures their due performance.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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EXECUTIVE, government. That power in the government which causes the laws to
be executed and obeyed: it is usually. confided to the hands of the chief
magistrate; the president of the United States is invested with this
authority under the national government; and the governor of each state has
theExecutive : power in his hands.
2. The officer in whom is vested the executive power is also called the
executive.
3. The Constitution of the United States directs that "the executive
power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America." Art.
2, s. 1. Vide Story, Const. B. 3, c. 36.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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