Business leader, for short
The crossword clue "Business leader, for short" is answered by EXEC, a 4-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
EXEC
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EXEC answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
Other clues for EXEC
Every other clue in this collection answered by EXEC, most used first.
- Suit - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- Corp. bigwig - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Biz bigwig - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Corporate VIP - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Office VIP - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- CEO, e.g. - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Company VIP - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Business bigwig, for short - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Business VIP - used 13 times, most recently in 2020
- Corp. VIP - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Company bigwig - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Higher-up - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Corporate bigwig - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Board member, for short - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Corporate honcho - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Corp. honcho - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Officer, for short. - used 9 times, most recently in 1968
- Part of CEO - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
- Suit, so to speak - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- CEO or CFO - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Corp. higher-up - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Corporate bigwig, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Corporate leader, for short - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Biz biggie - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Board member - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Boardroom VIP - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Business bigwig - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- CFO, e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- One of the brass - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
- Big cheese - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- Business biggie - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Company officer, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Corporate higher-up, for short - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Govt. branch - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Prez, e.g. - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
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