also: おもやく
company director; executive; top management
Only with reading じゅうやく
Business and organizational term for a senior executive or member of top management. Restricted this sense to the reading じゅうやく.
My father serves as an executive at a trading company.
The top executives decided on a new management policy.
important post; role with heavy responsibilities
Refers to a weighty office or responsibility rather than specifically to a company executive. This use is more formal and less common in everyday speech than expressions such as 重責 or 重要な役目; the reading おもやく is obsolete.
He was entrusted with the important role of overseeing the entire festival.
In older writing, 重役 is sometimes read as omoyaku.
He became a company director after ten years at the firm.
My father serves as an executive at that company.
She is scheduled to be promoted to an executive position next month.
arriving at work late as if one were an executive; management attendance at work