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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.

In the way of executing or performing.

Pertaining to administration, or to the executive part of government.

Executive; acting; managing affairs. -- n.

The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain. A mild and popular administration. Macaulay. The administration has…

Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy. -- Ad*min"is*tra`tive*ly, adv.

in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.

pen the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimates and plans of the executive government.

The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.

l control. The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration. Macaulay. Board of control. See under Board.

act of putting in the same order, class, rank, dignity, etc.; as, the coördination of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial authority in forming a government; the act of regulating and combining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coördination of functions. "Coördination of musc…

ened from the whole body of the church to regulate matters of doctrine or discipline. -- Executive council, a body of men elected as advisers of the chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. [U.S.] -- Legislative council, the upper house of a legislature, usually called the senate. -- Privy council. See und…

iament, but governed by a chief magistrate (called Governor) appointed by the Crown, with executive councilors nominated by him and not elected by the people.

transfer; to assign; to commit. The delegated administration of the law. Locke. Delegated executive power. Bancroft. The power exercised by the legislature is the people's power, delegated by the people to the legislative. J. B. Finch.

Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.

A body of directors; board of management; especially, a committee which held executive power in France under the first republic.

The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

Of or pertaining to an executive.

Pertaining to administration, or putting the laws in force; executive. The official and executory duties of government. Burke.

One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania. "The governor of the town." Shak.