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How to use exec in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, verb

Exec means an executive; a person employed at the executive level. Example: “Let me kick your offer up and see what the execs say.”

Examples of exec by meaning

nounAn executive; a person employed at the executive level.

  • An upcoming problem to be thrashed out at a meeting of diskery reps and execs of the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA), is the degree of AFRA's jurisdictional claim over singers on records.1950 October 28, “Diskers, AFRA Puzzle Singer Jurisdictions”, in Billboard, page 13
  • Some captains delegate all the unpopular orders to their exec so he can take the heat.” “Right.2004, David Gerrold, Tales of the Star Wolf, SFBC, →ISBN

nounAn executive officer, i.e. the chief assistant to the commanding officer.

  • Report to the exec's office right after inspection tomorrow, Mister Keith.1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, page 17

More sentences with exec

  • Let me kick your offer up and see what the execs say.From the entry kick up
  • The bank's funds have been raided by former execs.From the entry raid
  • Jeremy has the kind of jasm a junior exec needs to reach the top of the ladder in the corporate world.From the entry jasm
  • He don't turn it off till we wrap,' " the director recalled of his own response to the execs.2025 April 10, Jen Juneau, “Ryan Coogler Says Disney Execs 'Freaked Out' Over Chadwick Boseman Speaking in Wakandan Accent on Black…. From the entry Wakandan
  • Blame the marketers, A&R men and record company execs.2001 March 27, Mr Q. Z. Diablo, “[long] will the real goth please stand up”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet). From the entry muso
  • “Hey,” the test-taker who’d shhed sat up, glared, saw the exec, shut up, and hunched down over the test.1992, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 112, page 70, column 1. From the entry shh
  • Consumed, with its narrative cat’s cradle tightly woven around putatively anthropophagic husband-and-wife French philosophers, wouldn’t be easy to pitch to Hollywood execs.2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12. From the entry anthropophagic
  • Automotive execs may wonder whether that still applies, but you can bet they know who won before they go to bed each Sunday night.1991 July 3, Al Pearce, “General Motors likely to reduce NASCAR funds”, in Daily Press, Virginia, US, retrieved 15 Oct 2018. From the entry what wins on Sunday sells on Monday
  • HOLLYWOOD: Margaret Whiting huddling with Capitol execs over her first solo album on which she will be backed by Frank De Vol.1947 April 5, Billboard Magazine, page 21. From the entry solo album
  • Techdirt got wind of a secret meeting by newspaper execs, complete with antitrust lawyers, to discuss how to proceed on the issue of implementing paywalls going forward.2009 May 29, ScuttleMonkey, “Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls”, in Slashdot. From the entry paywall
  • She also offers a fascinating glimpse into a more innocent age before svengalis began colluding with marketing men and TV execs to promote talentless wannabes to overnight success.2005 October 15, Hamilton Spectator. From the entry talentless
  • Lee is just one of a series of execs who have bolted slow-growing Microsoft in the last year for the bright lights of Google. . . .2005 July 21, Jay Greene, “Microsoft Sues over Google's Hire”, in Businessweek, retrieved 22 Sep 2010. From the entry noncompete clause

Meaning of exec

  1. noun An executive; a person employed at the executive level.
  2. noun An executive officer, i.e. the chief assistant to the commanding officer.
  3. verb To execute; to run.

Full definition of exec

Questions about exec in a sentence

How do you use exec in a sentence?
Exec is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Let me kick your offer up and see what the execs say.”
What is a short sentence with exec?
“Blame the marketers, A&R men and record company execs.”
What does exec mean?
Exec means an executive; a person employed at the executive level.

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