executive class
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of executive class
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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That’s what makes the Rockies the Holy Grail for the math wonks and Ivy League whiz kids who make up baseball’s executive class.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
“How much is enough for the executive class, how much is enough for the shareholders?”
From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2019
“In these times,” he wrote, “the message the executive class is sending is clear: working women and men should blindly obey orders with no questions asked, even when they are experts in their field.”
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2018
At some inevitable point in the unpredictable future, it will come to seem a less stupendous idea among the executive class to depend so heavily on the back catalog.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2018
The well-to-do executive class forming the last group had the greatest cause to feel alarmed at the consequences which might follow upon the war.
From Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess
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