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nonexecutive director

British  

noun

  1. a director of a commercial company who is not a full-time member of the company but is brought in to advise the other directors

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“When you abuse state power and freeze bank accounts and throw people in jail — the editor in chief, the chief executive, the founder — it smacks of a banana republic,” said Mark Clifford, an independent nonexecutive director of Next Digital.

From New York Times

Coladangelo, a former lobbyist, became a nonexecutive director on the department’s board late last year.

From Seattle Times

In November, he was appointed to a three-year term as a nonexecutive director of Britain’s Department for International Trade.

From Seattle Times

“Steve Wynn is an industry giant,” Boone Wayson, nonexecutive director of the board, said in the statement announcing Wynn’s resignation.

From Washington Post

Mr. Bush was a nonexecutive director of St. Louis-based Engineered Support Systems, whose profits were bolstered because of the Iraq War.

From Washington Post