CEO

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

English

Noun

CEO (plural CEOs)

1. Initialism of chief executive officer.
   • CEOs who once made 50 times the average worker’s salary made more than 500 times as much in 2001. — Evan Thomas, Why It’s Time to Worry, Newsweek 2010-12-04
2. (UK) Initialism of civil enforcement officer.

Related terms

• CCO
• CFO
• CIO
• CSO
• CTO
• CXO

 

Translations

chief executive officer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最高執行官／最高执行官 (zuìgāo zhíxíngguān), 最高执行官 (zuìgāo zhíxíngguān), 首席執行官／首席执行官 (zh) (shǒuxí zhíxíngguān), 首席执行官 (zh) (shǒuxí zhíxíngguān), 執行總裁／执行总裁 (zhíxíng zǒngcái), 执行总裁 (zhíxíng zǒngcái), 總裁／总裁 (zh) (zǒngcái), 总裁 (zh) (zǒngcái)

• Dutch: bestuursvoorzitter (nl)
• Finnish: TJ, tj
• French: PDG (fr)
• Hebrew: מנכ״ל (mankal)
• Italian: AD
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• Norwegian: adm.dir (administrerende direktør)
• Portuguese: CEO (pt) m or f
• Romanian: DG
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: VD (sv), vd (sv) c
• Turkish: YKB (tr)

Anagrams

• COE, CoE, ECO, EOC, eco, eco-

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English CEO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsi i ˈow/

Noun

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

Synonyms

• diretor executivo