account executive
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- noun
- /əˈkaʊnt ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɪv/
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ejecutivo de cuentas
- As an account executive, she is the main point of contact for clients at the agency.
- advertising account executive
- senior account executive
- junior account executive
Examples
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Paul Guilefoile is the best account executive that I have ever met.
Academic text (2001) -
One morning, an account executive was saying, "I've thought of the perfect logo for the Rancho Beef Chili account."
Fiction book (1998) -
An account executive makes a presentation to someone he wants as a client.
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Today, she is an Account Executive at Text 100 in the San Francisco office.
Blog text (31) -
I'm an account executive at an advertising agency.
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The account executive keeps waiting for the client to call him back, to tell him what he thought of the idea, to tell him if he got the job or not.
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Prior to T&H, Richard worked as an account executive in NYC, selling enterprise software and services to the world's largest financial services companies.
Blog text (22) -
A year later, she was a junior copywriter, and two years after that, she became an account executive, handling both advertising and publicity.
Fiction book (1998) -
Our current clients could see the value in our idea, and they almost unanimously told our account executives that it was a great thing to do.
Blog text (15) -
Astrid Millstone was the PR firm's account executive for Toyota.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A person who manages client accounts and keeps in contact with them for a company
A person who manages a client's account at a company like an advertising agency
A man at an agency who looks after important clients and their accounts
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally built from 'account' (a client or financial account) + 'executive' (a managerial person), so 'account executive' is readily understood as a manager responsible for accounts/clients. This noun–noun combination follows a common professional titling pattern found cross‑linguistically, making it transparent to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Account executive comes from business language: an account is a client's file or business with a company, and an executive is someone who makes decisions and gets things done. So an account executive is literally someone who works for a client's account, that is, they 'manage' the client's relationship and projects.