exco

English

Etymology

From the initial syllables.

Noun

exco (plural excos)

1. (informal) Executive committee or council.
   • 2001, Norman Levy, Chris Tapscott, Intergovernmental Relations in South Africa:

     Debates within the Budget Council were described as taking place largely within the framework of treasury decisions but the implications of this were not lost on the provincial excos […]

   • 2015 June 27, “Sepp Blatter says decision to leave Fifa was ‘liberating’”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Blatter said Asia and Africa were not democratically represented on the exco he has chaired as president since 1998.

Translations

executive committee or council

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 行會／行会 (hang⁴ wui^6-2)

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: johtokunta (fi)
• French: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Coxe