exec

noun

ex·​ec ig-ˈzek How to pronounce exec (audio)

Examples of exec in a Sentence

a restaurant where the city's top execs like to have power lunches
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Suman Sharma is the cofounder and CTO of Procyon Inc. Imagine a retail firm’s AI spitting out a sales forecast for a regional manager, merging public market trends, open to all, with sensitive customer purchase histories, restricted to top execs. Suman Sharma, Forbes.com, 7 July 2025 Amazon’s Prasad isn’t the only exec whose big break came thanks to an unexpected phone call. Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 4 July 2025 In addition to Kreischer, the show is co-created and exec produced by Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel (Huge in France, The Grinder), who serve as writers, directors and showrunners. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 3 July 2025 In the cast for those performances — former longtime Nashville Shakespeare Festival artistic exec director Denice Hicks. Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for exec

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of exec was in 1896

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“Exec.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exec. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.

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