{
  "id": "executive.role",
  "term": "executive",
  "sense": "role",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "executive",
  "domain": "role",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person who has a role that makes big decisions for an organization",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "role.social",
      "choice.decision",
      "control.ability",
      "big.size",
      "decision.cognitive",
      "make.verb",
      "organization.administrative",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "the role, the ability to control, and the act of making cognitive decisions interact so that a person in the role selects significant options within an organizational structure",
    "novel_properties": [
      "authoritative agency",
      "strategic oversight",
      "organizational influence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Elon Musk approved the design of SpaceX's Starship rocket in 2022, directing the company's engineering priorities.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The CEO of General Electric decided in 2018 to spin off its healthcare division, reshaping the corporation's structure.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared New Zealand's response to the Christchurch mosque shootings in 2019, guiding national policy.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "role.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "executive",
    "executives"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Fixed spelling of 'definition' and factually corrected 'have' to 'has' and 'make' to 'makes' for subject-verb agreement."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-executive.role"
}