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CEO

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See also: ceo, ce-o, ceò, ceó, and céo

English

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Noun

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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.

Alternative forms

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chief executive officer
current engine option

Translations

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Verb

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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], archived from the original on 25 March 2020:
      “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, […] ”

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsiːˈjoː/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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

  1. (business) CEO; chief executive officer
    Synonyms: algemeen directeur, bestuursvoorzitter

Derived terms

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Further reading

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

Japanese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English CEO.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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CEO(シーイーオー) • (shī-ī-ō) 

  1. CEO

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

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Noun

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CEO m or f by sense (plural CEOs)

  1. (business) CEO; chief executive officer (highest-ranking corporate officer)
    Synonym: diretor executivo

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English CEO.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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CEO m or f by sense (plural CEO or CEOs)

  1. (business) CEO; chief executive officer
    • 2020 September 10, Alexis Benveniste, “El listado Fortune 500 ahora tiene un número récord de mujeres CEO: apenas 39”, in CNN en Español‎[6]:
      Fraser se une a otras 38 mujeres en la lista de CEOs de Fortune 500, conformada en su mayoría por blancos y hombres.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2022 June 21, Sandee LaMotte, “Las nuevas guías para el sueño seguro de los bebés insisten en no dormir en la cama con ellos, ni usar decoraciones o camas inclinadas”, in CNN en Español‎[7]:
      “Una buena manera de comprobar si una superficie es demasiado blanda es presionar la mano hacia abajo y luego levantarla. Si la mano deja una hendidura, es demasiado blanda”, dijo Alison Jacobson, CEO de First Candle, una organización nacional sin ánimo de lucro comprometida con la eliminación del síndrome de muerte súbita del lactante y otras muertes infantiles relacionadas con el sueño a través de la educación y la defensoría.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2024 June 4, Matt Egan, “Los CEO ganan casi 200 veces más que sus trabajadores”, in CNN en Español‎[8]:
      Los patrones siempre ganaron más dinero que los trabajadores. Pero la brecha entre los CEO y los empleados no para de crecer.
      El CEO promedio del S&P 500 se ganó 196 veces más que el empleado promedio en 2023, según un análisis de Equilar y The Associated Press.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Swedish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

Noun

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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.

Declension

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Declension of CEO
nominative genitive
singular indefinite CEO CEO:s
definite CEO:n CEO:ens
plural indefinite CEO:er, CEO:s CEO:ers
definite CEO:erna CEO:ernas
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