chief executive

Questions about chief executive

What does chief executive mean?

chief executive means "the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for chief executive?

Close synonyms include President of the United States, United States President, President, President of the United States, President. 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 chief executive a common word?

chief 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.