EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does executive director mean? 

• EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (noun)
  The noun EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR has 1 sense:

1. a person responsible for the administration of a business

  Familiarity information: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person responsible for the administration of a business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

executive; executive director

Hypernyms ("executive director" is a kind of...):

administrator; decision maker (someone who administers a business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "executive director"):

business executive; corporate executive (an executive in a business corporation)

government minister; minister (a person appointed to a high office in the government)

rainmaker (executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm)

Surgeon General (the head of the United States Public Health Service)

V.P.; vice president (an executive officer ranking immediately below a president; may serve in the president's place under certain circumstances)

 Context examples 

“A healthy ocean with abundant wildlife is capable of slowing the rate of climate breakdown substantially,” said Dr Monica Verbeek, the executive director of the group Seas at Risk.

(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)