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executive agreement

noun

, U.S. Government.
  1. an agreement, usually pertaining to administrative matters and less formal than an international treaty, made between chiefs of state without senatorial approval.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of executive agreement1

First recorded in 1940–45
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Example Sentences

However, these will "require executive agreement on significant policy issues", they added.

From BBC

“It’s a framework because the administration wanted to have something it could do by executive agreement,” said Robert Holleyman, a former deputy U.S. trade representative.

Such an executive agreement would not be legally binding and would lack the reciprocal benefits of a full trade pact, according to Goodman.

There had been doubt whether payments could be made without Executive agreement.

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Earlier this year, a senior departmental official said that executive agreement was needed to extend funding for the holiday food payments beyond Easter 2022.

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