(flÉªk) vb. 1. (tr) to touch with or as if with the finger or hand in a quick jerky movement. 2. (tr) to propel or remove by a quick jerky movement, usually of the fingers or hand: to flick a piece of paper at someone. 3. to move or cause to move quickly or jerkily. 4. (foll by: through) to read or look at (a book, newspaper, etc) quickly or idly. 5. to snap or click (the fingers) to produce a sharp sound.
Confidence votes 34.7K. Here is a list of US presidents and the number of executive orders each has signed. The president with the most executive orders was FDR with 3,522. Barack Obama - 144 (so far). George W. Bush - 291.
The form, substance and numbers of presidential orders has varied dramatically in the history of the US Presidency. Numbering of Executive Orders began in 1907 by the Department of State, which assigned numbers to all the orders then in their files dating from 1862 (Lord 1944, viii). Through those efforts, the frequency of unnumbered orders declined sharply.