business executive

1. 1.

   an executive in a business corporation

   Synonymscorporate executive

   Broaderexecutive

   Narrowerchairman of the boardchief executive officerchief financial officerinsiderpresident

Questions about business executive

What does business executive mean?

business executive means "an executive in a business corporation".

What is another word for business executive?

Close synonyms include corporate executive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is business executive a common word?

business executive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.