one who holds a position of administrative or managerial responsibility in an organization. To give one some idea of the power associated with the word, Noah Webster, in 1828, defined it as "The officer, whether king, president or other chiefmagistrate, who superintends the execution of the laws; the person who administers the government, executive power or authority in government." Executive is used in distinction from legislative and judicial. The body that deliberates and enacts laws is legislative; the body that judges or applies the laws to particularcases is judicial; the body or person who carries the laws into effect or superintends the enforcement of them is executive, according to its nineteenth-century governmental meaning according to Webster. The word comes from the Latin "Ex(s)equi (past participle ex(s)ecutus), execute, follow to the end: ex-, completely + sequi, to follow." In other words, he follows things to the end and gets something done. —How To Live Though an Executive. Final approval 31.10.89