Executor Meaning
/ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɚ/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA person who carries out some task.
nounA component of a system that executes or runs something.
Sentence Examples
I'm the executor of Tom Jackson's estate.
I'm the executor of her estate.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The will named her brother as the ____ of her estate.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He named his brother as the ____ of his will to manage his estate after his death.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English executour, from Anglo-Norman executour, from Latin exsecūtor, agent noun of exsequor.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"This manner can no longer be considered "folk-song," yet neither can it be taken as "art-song," at least not conscious art, for the executors, the chazzanim, did not know of any theory of music and modulation."
— 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 192:
"When searching for a solution is unnecessary, then the program executor "doesn't care" which solution is generated nor how it is obtained."
— 2014, Robert Kowalski, Thom Frühwirth, Logic for Problem Solving, Revisited, page 114:
"The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, / Delivering o'er to executors pale / The lazy yawning drone."
— 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 203:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The will named her brother as the ____ of her estate.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He named his brother as the ____ of his will to manage his estate after his death.