executive class
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of executive class
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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She made cuts to a bloated executive class, a legacy of the company’s brief time as a top 100 company on the Australian stock exchange, and closed offices in Sydney and elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
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
Above all, their exorbitant pay means the elite chief executive class is habitually and unavoidably out of touch with everyone else.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2012
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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