Fiduciary vs Executor - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fiduciary and executor

is that fiduciary is one who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee while executor is a person who carries out some task.

is related to trusts and trustees.

(en adjective)

(legal) Related to trusts and trustees.

a fiduciary contract

a fiduciary duty

Pertaining to paper money whose value depends on public confidence or securities.

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 63:

Indeed, currency would be more effective for not being gold and silver but fiduciary paper money.

(fiduciaries)

(legal) One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.

(theology) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an antinomian.

* executour (obsolete)

(wikipedia executor) (en noun)

A person who carries out some task.

(label) Someone appointed by a testator to administer a will; an administrator.

(obsolete) An executioner.

* 1599 , , I. ii. 203:

The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, / Delivering o'er to executors pale / The lazy yawning drone.