CEO

CEO (countable and uncountable, plural CEOs)

2. (countable, business) Initialism of chief executive officer.

   Hypernyms: CXO, officer < person

   Coordinate terms: COO; more at CXO § Hyponyms

   • 2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek‎^[1]:

     CEOs who once made 50 times the average worker’s salary made more than 500 times as much in 2001.

   • 2015 January 2, Nicholas Carlson, “The Day Marissa Mayer's Honeymoon At Yahoo Ended”, in Business Insider‎^[2], archived from the original on 24 September 2022:

     Stack ranking had come into fashion after GE CEO Jack Welch used a similar system, called rank-and-yank, to turn around that company in the 1980s and 1990s.

   • 2023 September 28, Benjamin Lindsay, quoting Kara Swisher, “Kara Swisher Defends Ex-Twitter Exec Upstaging CEO Linda Yaccarino”, in TheWrap‎^[3]:

     Swisher then looked back at a number of tech CEOs booked for the conference in the past — from Steve Jobs to Elon Musk — and relayed that “we never promised anything or gave them any heads up. We’re journalists FFS.”

3. (UK, countable) Initialism of civil enforcement officer.
4. (aviation) Acronym of current engine option.
5. (Philippines, government) Initialism of city engineering office.

• (chief executive officer): C.E.O., C. E. O.
• (current engine option): ceo

CEO (third-person singular simple present CEOs, present participle CEOing, simple past and past participle CEOed)

1. (intransitive, informal) To serve as the chief executive officer (CEO) of an organization or company.
   • 2018, Michael Andreoni, The Window Is a Mirror, Livonia, MI: BHC Press, →ISBN, page unknown:

     Daddy-David's answer was CEOing. He'd CEOed at three companies, most recently as head of an electronic sensor manufacturer. “He's completely turned them around in less than a year,” Lise trilled, “and never missed Friday afternoon Bible study.”

   • 2020 March 2, Matt Levine, “Twitter Owner Wants Full-Time CEO”, in Bloomberg‎^[4]:

     “We’d like you to be our CEO,” the board would say, and the CEO would say “sounds great but I am also the CEO of another company, is that a problem,” and the board would say “yes of course that’s a problem, we meant you’d quit your other CEO job and work for us, that’s how CEOing works, […] ”

• COE, CoE, Coe, ECO, EOC, eco, eco-

Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːˈjoː/

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CEO m (plural CEO's, diminutive CEO'tje n)

1. (business) CEO; chief executive officer

   Synonyms: algemeen directeur, bestuursvoorzitter

• “CEO” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Borrowed from English CEO.

• IPA^(key): [ɕiːiːo̞ː]

CEO(シーイーオー) • (shī-ī-ō) 

1. CEO

• “CEO”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[5] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

CEO m or f by sense (plural CEOs)

1. (business) CEO; chief executive officer (highest-ranking corporate officer)

   Synonym: diretor executivo

Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

CEO c

1. CEO; chief executive officer

   Synonyms: VD, vd

   • 2019 April 21, Andreas Rågsjö Thorell, “Kundfokus: "Jag brukar skämtsamt säga att jag tog rollen för titeln" [Customer focus: "I usually jokingly say that I took the role for the title"]”, in Resumé:

     Ökat finansiellt tryck kombinerat med att CEO:n sällan kommer från marknadshållet vilket gjort att marknad har tappat mandat.

     Increased financial pressure combined with the fact that the CEO rarely comes from the market side, which has caused the market to lose its mandate.