重役
also: おもやく
Meanings
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 This use is more formal and less common in everyday speech than expressions such as 重責 or 重要な役目; the reading おもやく is obsolete.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.
Usage patterns
- 〈人〉が重役になるfor someone to become a company director/executive
He became a company director after ten years at the firm.
- 重役を務めるto serve as a company director/executive
My father serves as an executive at that company.
- 重役に昇進するto be promoted to executive rank
She is scheduled to be promoted to an executive position next month.