Word.ws English Dictionary

executive decision

executive decision noun: a decision by a group or person with executive powers.

Noun

executive decision (plural executive decisions)

  1. A decision by a group or person with executive powers.
    • On many sensitive topics—such as taxation and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)—the Council remains the primary legislator and the directly elected Parliament is often only consulted. In the case of enlargement (an executive decision rather than a matter of 'legislation') the EP is called upon...2008, Elizabeth E. Bomberg, John Peterson, Alexander C-G. Stubb, The European Union: How Does it Work?, →ISBN, page 169
  2. (humorous) A decision that is made without input from others.
    • Near the end of the game, he made an executive decision to start warming up, and it looked as if he were going to pitch in the game.2008, Diedre Silva, Jackie Koney, It Takes More Than Balls, →ISBN

Forms of executive decision

pluralexecutive decisions

Questions about executive decision

What does executive decision mean?
Executive decision means a decision by a group or person with executive powers.
What part of speech is executive decision?
Executive decision is a noun.
What is the plural of executive decision?
The plural of executive decision is executive decisions.

Words near executive decision in the dictionary

  1. executive class
  2. executive committee
  3. executive committees
  4. executive control
  5. executive curl
  6. executive decision
  7. executive decisions
  8. executive editor
  9. executive editors
  10. executive ego function
  11. executive ego functions

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: executive decision (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “executive decision.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/executive_decision. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.