An executive is someone who is employed by a business at a senior level. Executives decide what the business should do, and ensure that it is done.

The executive sections and tasks of an organization are concerned with the making of decisions and with ensuring that decisions are carried out.

Executive goods are expensive goods designed or intended for executives and other people at a similar social or economic level.

The executive committee or board of an organization is a committee within that organization which has the authority to make decisions and ensures that these decisions are carried out.

The executive is the part of the government of a country that is concerned with carrying out decisions or orders, as opposed to the part that makes laws or the part that deals with criminals.