Executive vs. Executor — What's the Difference?

A person or group having administrative or managerial authority in an organization.

An executor is someone who is responsible for executing, or following through on, an assigned task or duty. The feminine form, executrix, may sometimes be used.

The chief officer of a government, state, or political division.

A person or institution appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of their will

The branch of government charged with putting into effect a country's laws and the administering of its functions.

A person who produces something or puts something into effect

(Computers) A set of coded instructions designed to process and control other coded instructions.

(Law) A person who is appointed by a testator to execute the testator's will.

Of, relating to, capable of, or suited for carrying out or executing

A person who carries out or performs something.

Having, characterized by, or relating to administrative or managerial authority

A person who carries out some task.

Of or relating to the branch of government charged with the execution and administration of the nation's laws.

(computing) A component of a system that executes or runs something.

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.

(legal) Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator.

Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.

(obsolete) An executioner.

Exclusive.

One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness.

A chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on their own authority.

An executioner.

The branch of government that is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.

The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.

(computing) A process that coordinates and governs the action of other processes or threads; supervisor.

A person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will

Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, department, etc.

Of or pertaining to an executive{2} or to the group of executives within an organization; as, executive compensation increased more rapidly than wages in the 1980's; the executive suite.

An impersonal title of the chief magistrate or officer who administers the government, whether king, president, or governor; the governing person or body.

A person who has administrative authority over an organization or division of an organization; a manager, supervisor or administrator at a high level within an organization; as, all executives of the company were given stock options

A person responsible for the administration of a business

Persons who administer the law

Someone who manages a government agency or department

Having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.;