executives
- 1Plural of executive.
Senior executives approved the merger after months of negotiation.
The board pressed the executives for a clear turnaround strategy.
Note
A regular plural, formed with -s, and always a noun. The adjective executive, as in executive duties or an executive suite, never takes an ending. Most often the plural counts people: chief officers and administrators who make significant decisions on their own authority. In computing it can also count supervisor processes that coordinate and govern other processes or threads.
executives is a form of executive
executive, noun: A chief officer or administrator in an organization, especially one able to make significant decisions on their own authority. Full entry
- Forms
- executiveexecutives plural
- Spelling
- executive → executives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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