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Executive vs Erstwhile - What's the difference?

executive | erstwhile |

As adjectives the difference between executive and erstwhile

is that executive is while erstwhile is (literary|legal) former, previous.

As an adverb erstwhile is

formerly; in the past.

executive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect.
  • Of, pertaining to, or having responsibility for the day-to-day running of an organisation, business, country, etc.; as, an executive act, an executive officer, executive government.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A title of a chief officer or administrator, especially one who can make significant decisions on her/his own authority.
  • That branch of government which is responsible for enforcing laws and judicial decisions, and for the day-to-day administration of the state.

    • Derived terms

    * chief executive * chief executive officer, CEO * executive branch * executive committee * executive committees * executive director * executive ego function * executive ego functions * executive mansion * executive officer * executive order * executive producer * executive producers * executive summaries * executive summary * executively * executives

    erstwhile

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Formerly; in the past.

    • Synonyms

    * erewhile

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (literary, legal) Former, previous.
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    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“Scarcely had Alice reached her twentieth birthday, than she gave her erstwhile fiancée [sic] his formal congé. […]”}}

    Synonyms

    * former, once, previous, quondam, onetime * See also