EXECUTOR | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of executor in English

Examples from literature
  • And of course I desire you to be the executor. 
  • He says he must have the support of the other executor. 
  • In the first place, Robert Palmer's will distinctly stated that everything was left to the judgment of the executors. 
  • The next day, however, the will was actually drawn up, executed, and placed in my cousin's hands, he being the sole executor. 
  • When I came to be executor, there was nearly nothing to guide me as to the amount of my father's property,—and I certainly did not succeed in realising all that he was supposed to have acquired. 
(Definition of executor from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of executor from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of executor from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of executor

executor
Where parents had died, other kin were usually called upon to act as guardians and executors in the paying out of inheritance portions.
Most indulgences were clearly obtained after death, presumably mainly by widows, widowers and executors.
The clan head makes all important decisions in consultation with adult men and is the chief executor of these decisions.
The will had the force of a deed and no executor was needed to administer the land.
The presence or absence of sons seems to have had relatively little influence on men's choice of executor.
Swedish wills hardly ever mention executors, nor does the legal code.
Situated planning systems may need to communicate rationale with human or machine task assigners or plan executors.
The figure of the president was given little room to manoeuvre, becoming in essence the mere ' executor ' of congress's policies.
This procedure is continued till the exploration executor tells the robot that there is no node left to explore.
The absence of executors may reflect the fact that the task of dividing the property was simpler than in some other jurisdictions.
Others were named as executors of wills or were specified as the ' person to contact ' on medical notes or in case of emergency.
So if not by the executors, then by whom was the inscription created?
For instance, a plan executor may have discovered new information that disallowed the performance of some action (jnode) in the plan.
But the historical essay, as his executors fully appreciated, was his natural art form.
These included disability from suing in civil courts, from acting as executors of wills and from making a will.
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Translations of executor

in Chinese (Traditional)
遺囑執行人…
in Chinese (Simplified)
遗嘱执行人…
in Spanish
albacea…
in Portuguese
testamenteiro, testamenteira, executor…
in more languages
in French
in Turkish
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
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in Ukrainian
exécuteur/-trice (testamentaire)…
vasiyeti uygulayan kimse…
executeur…
vykonavatel závěti…
eksekutor…
pelaksana wasiat…
ผู้จัดการมรดก…
người được di chúc…
wykonawca (testamentu)…
verkställare, utförare…
pelaksana wasiat…
der Testamentsvollstrecker…
eksekutor…
виконувач духівниці…
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