executive produce

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Back-formation from executive producer.

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executive produce (third-person singular simple present executive produces, present participle executive producing, simple past and past participle executive produced)

  1. (transitive) To act as executive producer on.
    • 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC[1]:
      Off camera, he also frequently gets involved in bringing to the screen projects around this great passion of his, telling the story of his nation, such as the punishing HBO World War Two series Band of Brothers, which he executive produced.

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