EXECUTIVE BRANCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does executive branch mean? 

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

1. the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXECUTIVE BRANCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

executive branch; Executive Office of the President

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

arm; branch; subdivision (a division of some larger or more complex organization)

Meronyms (parts of "executive branch"):

AEC; Atomic Energy Commission (a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States)

Manhattan Project (a former United States executive agency that was responsible for developing atomic bombs during World War II)

executive agency (an agency of the executive branch of government)

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Meronyms (members of "executive branch"):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Holonyms ("executive branch" is a member of...):

U.S.; U.S. government; United States; United States government; US Government (the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States)

 Context examples 

An agency in the executive branch which endeavors to abate and control pollution in the areas of air, water, solid waste, noise, radiation, and toxic substances.

(Environmental Protection Agency, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)