senior vice president

noun

An executive in charge of a division or region, typically below an executive vice president or CXO (such as a chief technology officer or chief financial officer); especially used in companies where uptitling means vice president refers to a middle manager.

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nounsenior vice president (plural senior vice presidents)

plural senior vice presidents

  1. businessAn executive in charge of a division or region, typically below an executive vice president or CXO (such as a chief technology officer or chief financial officer); especially used in companies where uptitling means vice president refers to a middle manager.

    To wit: an associate producer and an assistant producer are of different castes; an executive vice president and a senior vice president and a mere vice president are of different species.

    1993, Eric Burns, Broadcast Blues: Dispatches from the Twenty-year War Between a Television Reporter and His Medium, HarperCollins Publishers

    Synonyms: SVP

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn executive in charge of a division or region, typically below an executive vice president or CXO (such as a chief technology officer or chief financial officer); especially used in companies where uptitling means vice president refers to a middle manager.

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SVP
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