executive agreement

Noun

executive agreement (plural executive agreements)

1. an agreement between the heads of government of two or more nations
   • I constantly urged my visitors to remember that I was sworn to uphold the Constitution, and therefore their determination to make certain that nothing should be done to destroy it could be no greater than my own. I began a practice of assuring visitors that I would support an amendment which would...1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 282
   • The Shanghai Communique which Nixon signed with Chou En-lai on February 28, at the end of the visit, presaged the "normalization of relations" between Peking and Washington seven years later. It was a most unusual document in diplomatic history in that it was signed between a U.S. President and the...1983, James C. H. Shen, “Beginnings of Endings”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 7–8