What does executive mean?
Word: Executive
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Executive means a senior person in a company who makes important decisions and leads part of the business; also the part of a government that runs the country.
Synonyms: director, officer
How do you spell executive?
Syllables: ex - ec - u - tive
Tricky part: The end is tive, with a silent e: never stop at executiv.
Watch out for: exacutive, executiv, excecutive
Memory tip: The silent e at the end of executive is like a boss at the back of the room: quiet, but always there.
Executive in a sentence
Example 1: My aunt is an executive at a bank in London.
Example 2: The executives met to plan the new product.
Example 3: Papa travelled in the executive class of the train.
Fun Fact
Many governments have three branches: the executive, which runs the country, the legislature, which makes laws, and the judiciary, which interprets them.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) secretary
b) exicutive
c) director
d) engineer
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b) exicutive. After ex comes another e, as in execute.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
vitecuxee
a) executed
b) excursion
c) exclusive
d) executive
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d) executive. Executed needs a d and the other two an s, so the v and three e's give executive.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: executive
a) visitor
b) manager
c) customer
d) student
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b) manager. A manager runs part of a company, as an executive does.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The executive gave a short speach to welcome the new workers.
a) speach
b) short
c) workers
d) executive
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a) speach. Speech is spelt with ee, like speed.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which person in a company is most likely to be called an executive?
a) The head of sales
b) The guard at the gate
c) The driver of the staff bus
d) The cashier at the counter
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a) The head of sales
2. Executive class on a train or a plane is usually...
a) kept only for the crew
b) more comfortable and dearer
c) kept for heavy luggage
d) the cheapest seats there are
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b) more comfortable and dearer
