executive class
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- executive-class adjective
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
None of this means that the striking writers and actors are wrong to point out the inequities in compensation of the rank-and-file versus the executive class.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023
“How much is enough for the executive class, how much is enough for the shareholders?”
From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2019
“Toni Erdmann” sets its critical sights not only on the odd folkways of the executive class, but also on German arrogance within the European Union and the casual cruelty of international capitalism.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2016
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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