Talk:executive

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I don't think there's an adjective here, is there? Would you say "This decision is executive" or "A very executive chair." Rather, I think it's an attributive use of the noun.--Brett 23:36, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, not that it makes it correct but I regularly hear (and use myself) "I made an executive decision". Or an "executive suite" in a hotel. Also, here's a couple other dictionary entries for executive: en, [1], [2], [3]. As you can see, they all list an adjective. Tygartl1 16:18, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you can say "executive suite" but you can do that with any noun. I just chose a page at random (show any page); it was 'aunt'. Now this isn't as common a collocation as 'execute decision' but you could certainly say, "that's an aunt thing" or "I've got an aunt problem". Adjectives can be graded, modified by 'very' and other adverbs, used predictively, etc. Executive can't. --Brett 11:21, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
So do you think all those other dictionaries are wrong? Tygartl1 17:48, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]