Usually means: Command to execute other programs.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. exec: Merriam-Webster
  2. exec: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exec, exec: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exec, exec: Collins English Dictionary
  5. EXEC: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exec, exec: Wordnik
  7. exec: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Exec, exec: Wiktionary
  9. exec: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exec: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exec: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. exec, exec: Dictionary.com
  13. EXEC, Exec (Amiga), Exec (computing), Exec (errand service), Exec (operating system), Exec (system call), Exec: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Exec: Rhymezone
  15. exec: FreeDictionary.org
  16. exec: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. exec, exec: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. exec: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. EXEC, exec: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. EXEC: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. exec: Genealogy Glossary
  2. EXEC: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. exec: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Exec: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See execs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (informal) An executive; a person employed at the executive level.
noun:  (military; informal) An executive officer, i.e the chief assistant to the commanding officer.
verb:  (computing, informal) To execute; to run.

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