executor
/ɪɡˈzɛkjʊtɚ/ noun C1- A person who carries out some task.
- A component of a system that executes or runs something.
- Someone appointed by a testator to administer their estate in accordance with their will; an administrator. · literary executor
Plural executors
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“No, merely his testamentary executor.
For the truth of everything here related, I can appeal more particularly to the testimony of Colonel Fitzwilliam, who, from our near relationship and constant intimacy, and still more as one of the executors of my father’s will, has been unavoidably acquainted with every particular of these transactions.
I speak now not as a medical man but as a trustee and executor of Sir Charles’s will.”
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