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Executive :: Executive (a.) 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..

Enactment :: Enactment (n.) The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

Directory :: Directory (n.) A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic..

Official :: Official (a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant..

Executive :: Executive (n.) An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body..

Police :: Police (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough..

Administrative :: Administrative (a.) Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy..

Executively :: Executively (adv.) In the way of executing or performing.

Veto :: Veto (n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power..

Outgeneral :: Outgeneral (v. t.) To exceed in generalship; to gain advantage over by superior military skill or executive ability; to outmaneuver.

Veto :: Veto (n.) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.

Prudential :: Prudential (a.) Exercising prudence; discretionary; advisory; superintending or executive; as, a prudential committee..

Administrant :: Administrant (a.) Executive; acting; managing affairs.

Department :: Department (v. i.) Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics..

Minister :: Minister (n.) One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs..

Administerial :: Administerial (a.) Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government..

Interpellate :: Interpellate (v. t.) To question imperatively, as a minister, or other executive officer, in explanation of his conduct; -- generally on the part of a legislative body..

Magistrate :: Magistrate (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it..

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc..

Executory :: Executory (a.) Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive..

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