execs

noun

plural of exec
as in executives
a person who manages or directs something a restaurant where the city's top execs like to have power lunches

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Recent Examples of execs The sport’s second season kicked off with some new investors—Milwaukee Brewers chairman and owner Mark Attansio and execs from the Minor League Baseball ownership group Ryan Sanders Baseball. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 24 July 2026 Motion picture marketing execs cry about the oxygen being sucked out of San Diego Comic-Con by rival studios, even if Disney’s Hall H Marvel panel is one of the last hoorahs to go down Saturday night. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 23 July 2026 His subsequent meeting with studio execs has since become the stuff of Hollywood legend. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2026 Amid Smith’s elevation, Friedlander says Amazon TV execs Jen Chambers, Michael McDonald, and Odetta Watkins will be exiting. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 8 July 2026 Variety reported that Disney execs Bob Iger, Dana Walden, and David Greenbaum were all invited to the wedding. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for execs
  1. executives
  2. managers
  3. directors
  4. administrators
  5. superintendents
Noun
  • No two competing baseball executives live so close to each other, or are able to meet up and share war stories about their owners, players or the local media.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Over the past decade, network executives have overhauled the program time and again, asking viewers to make connections with anchors including Scott Pelley, Norah O’Donnell and Jeff Glor, only to revise plans every few years.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of executives
Noun
  • Many large conglomerates were delivering mediocre results; managers were widely seen as empire-builders more interested in size and stability than returns.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Money managers with sustainable mandates have warned that holding SpaceX would expose investors to an array of heightened risks that, aside from governance issues, includes stewardship worries as well as basic valuation questions.
    — Alastair Marsh, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of managers
Noun
  • Horror-movie directors are always looking for new ways to transgress.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
  • And both of those directors had at least one person assisting them.
    — Patrick Riccards, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of directors
Noun
  • Clinicians and administrators remain in control, but decision making becomes faster, more proactive and focused on delivering better patient care.
    — Prathap Rao, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • That ruling put the thumb on the scale in favor of school administrators’ judgment calls, according to the appeals court judges who backed Tri County Area Schools in the dispute over the sweatshirt.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of administrators
Noun
  • These voices say the move allows an outgoing governor to cement control over education for years, limiting the ability of future superintendents to counterbalance the governor’s agenda.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
  • That afternoon, an email from CDE chief deputy superintendents Dave Schapira and Ingrid Robertson announced that employees could work remotely through that Friday, June 5.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of superintendents

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