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Executive

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.

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Administration 76% connected

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office…

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Administrator 76% connected

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a ma…

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Brass 76% connected

An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes cont…

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Chief 76% connected

The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the…

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Establishment 76% connected

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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Governance 76% connected

Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Organization 76% connected

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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Commissioner 76% connected

A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him;…

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Minister 76% connected

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

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Prefect 76% connected

A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a ca…

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Triumvir 76% connected

One of tree men united in public office or authority.

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Action 74% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Action 74% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Execute 74% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Execute 74% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Run 74% connected

of Run

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Run 74% connected

of Run

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Containing group 3

Government 70% connected

The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

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Regime 70% connected

Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.

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Implementation 66% connected

Turning a plan or policy into actual practice.

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Administrator 92% connected

One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a ma…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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