Definition of executive

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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..

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Legislative :: Legislative (a.) Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body..
Administerial :: Administerial (a.) Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government..
President :: President (n.) The chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the United States..
Ministry :: Ministry (n.) The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession..
Vizier :: Vizier (n.) A councilor of state; a high executive officer in Turkey and other Oriental countries.
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..
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..
Cabinet :: Cabinet (n.) The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.
Governor :: Governor (n.) One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania..
Attorney-general :: Attorney-general (n.) The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required..
Veto :: Veto (n.) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.
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..
Administration :: Administration (n.) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain..
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..
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..
Administrant :: Administrant (a.) Executive; acting; managing affairs.
Outgeneral :: Outgeneral (v. t.) To exceed in generalship; to gain advantage over by superior military skill or executive ability; to outmaneuver.
Administrative :: Administrative (a.) Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy..
Executory :: Executory (a.) Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive..
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