non-executive
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.
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.
expensive and of a high quality:
an executive car/flat/home

Examples of executive

executive
The reports include an executive summary that facilitates a quick and comprehensive understanding of the key points addressed by the report.
The organization committee presented monthly reports to the executive.
If the results indicate neither memory nor symbolic play deficits, then further consideration of the executive dysfunction hypothesis is warranted.
Executive functions and working memory : theoretical and measurement issues.
Whether children are playing, or learning language or math skills, they are also receiving training in executive function skills at the same time.
Double dissociations of memory and executive functions in working memory tasks following frontal lobe excisions, temporal lobe excisions or amygdalo-hippocampectomy in man.
Unlike a quasi-judicial agency, this quasilegislative agency was neither independent of the executive, the judicial, nor the legislative branch, respectively.
Unlike criminal matters and the policing of trades and markets, religious courts had no executive powers in matters of family law.
The administration of the divestiture programme is undertaken by a secretariat, headed by an executive secretary.
Other contributing factors may include decline in sensory input (hearing and visual acuity), working memory and executive function.
As it is possible to observe, the high negative coefficient indicates a very significant replacement effect between executive decrees and bill initiatives.
These findings point to an association with wideranging aspects of executive function, including planning and strategy formation, plus evaluating, checking, and monitoring of errors.
Clearly, research efforts need to be directed towards assessing the development of more specific aspects of cognitive functioning, such as executive functions.
At least some evidence suggests that some financial executives have attempted to use the pension plan to enhance short-term corporate results and, sometimes, their compensation.
On two executive tests there was significantly more impairment in the nonresponder group compared to responders.
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Collocations withexecutive

executive

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advertising executive
I can imagine an advertisingexecutive being quite daunted at the thought of having to devise a marketing campaign for a community rehabilitation order.
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