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exec - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun executor .
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun informal executive , executive officer
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
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Shortening of executive
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Things got out of hand and the police asked the label exec to tweet to the fans that the show is canceled and to go home.
Softpedia News - Global 2009
Nonetheless, he just might be the prototype for the label exec of the future.
Medlogs - Recent stories 2009
She's sick of people asking her where her album is so she says it to a label exec straight-up: "I feel like 'Move on Me' is a single, how 'bout it?"
Vh1 Blog 2010
There is no such thing as a "standard contract" and if a label exec tells you that something in a contract is "standard language" run for the door.
freshnews.org - most clicked links 2010
"There has been remarkably little pushback," a label exec said.
Crain's New York Business - Breaking News Feeds 2009
It looked like a label exec made him do that, thinking it was a good idea.
SOHH Blogs 2009
THAT'S WHY RAPPERS SOUND SO MUCH BETTER ON THEIR MIXTAPES ... they get to choose the beats, hooks, etc, not some label exec or whoever.
SOHH Blogs 2009
The external agonies, provided by everyone from a label exec (Kim Gordon) to a chatty yellow pages salesman (real life Yellow Pages salesman Thadeus A. Thomas), are largely irrelevant to the elliptical narrative, but they have an aesthetic value that's critical to Van Sant's vision.
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As you said, who would boot out an exec of a successful company to hire in an exec from a failing company? datingjesus
Bad CEO! No doughnut! « Dating Jesus 2009
The time-traveling exec is mistaken for Sancho Panza, Quixote's squire, and adventure ensues.
Terry Gilliam Looks To Robert Duvall For His Don Quixote » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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