BUSINESS EXECUTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does business executive mean? 

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

1. an executive in a business corporation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSINESS EXECUTIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An executive in a business corporation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

business executive; corporate executive

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

executive; executive director (a person responsible for the administration of a business)

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

chairman of the board (the chairman of the board of directors of a corporation)

CEO; chief executive officer; chief operating officer (the corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president))

CFO; chief financial officer (the corporate executive having financial authority to make appropriations and authorize expenditures for a firm)

insider (an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations)

president (an executive officer of a firm or corporation)