executive session

1. 1.

   a session (usually of a legislative body) that is closed to the public

   Synonymsclosed session

   Broadersession

Questions about executive session

What does executive session mean?

executive session means "a session (usually of a legislative body) that is closed to the public".

What is another word for executive session?

Close synonyms include closed session. 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 executive session a common word?

executive session 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.