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🧑‍⚖️ Not managing 🧑‍⚖️ Board member
non-executive

non-executive

5.4
A person on a company's board who gives advice but does not manage daily operations
  • noun
  • /nɒn ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɪv/
  • Specialized
translation icon : no ejecutivo
  • The board appointed two new non-executive directors to provide independent oversight.

Examples

  • His role as a non-executive on the company's board allowed him to advise without managing.

  • Each of these has heads, directors, non executive directors, CE OS or director generals.

  • As a non-executive member of the committee, she was not involved in day-to-day decisions.

Antonyms

executive
533 4.5

A senior manager who makes important decisions in a company

How Managerial

executive
533 4.5
manager
∞ 1.6
non-executive
  • Specialized
5.4
staff member
90 1.5

Surface Forms

non-executive singular
non-executives plural

Morphology

non-executive = non-executive (transparent) = non + executive

The noun use is a regular conversion of the adjective, and the negation with non- is straightforward.

Etymology

Non-executive comes from non- 'not' and executive 'a manager who carries out decisions', so a non-executive person is 'not' part of daily management but offers advice and independent oversight to the board.