CEO

CEO

See also: ceo, ceò, ceó, and céo

English

Noun

CEO (countable and uncountable, plural CEOs)

1. (countable, business) 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, countable) Initialism of civil enforcement officer.
3. (aviation) Acronym of current engine option.

Alternative forms

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

Related terms

chief executive officer

• CCO
• CFO
• CIO
• CSO
• CTO
• CXO

 

current engine option

• NEO

 

Translations

chief executive officer

Bengali: প্রধান নির্বাহী কর্মকর্তা (prôdhan nirbahi kôrmôkôrta) Chinese: Mandarin: 最高執行官／最高执行官 (zuìgāo zhíxíngguān), 首席執行官／首席执行官 (zh) (shǒuxí zhíxíngguān), 執行總裁／执行总裁 (zhíxíng zǒngcái), 總裁／总裁 (zh) (zǒngcái) Danish: administrerende direktør c, CEO c Dutch: bestuursvoorzitter (nl) Finnish: TJ (fi), tj French: PDG (fr) Hebrew: מנכ״ל‎ (mankal) Italian: AD Norwegian: adm.dir, administrerende direktør Portuguese: CEO (pt) m or f, diretor executivo m Romanian: DG Russian: генди́р (ru) m (gendír) (informal), генера́льный дире́ктор (ru) m (generálʹnyj diréktor) (formal) Spanish: director ejecutivo m, gerente general m (America), presidente ejecutivo m (Spain) Swedish: VD (sv) c, vd (sv) c Turkish: YKB (tr)

Verb

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:

     “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

• COE, CoE, Coe, ECO, EOC, eco, eco-

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsi ˈi ˈow/ [ˈsi ˈi ˈoʊ̯]

Noun

CEO m or f by sense (plural CEOs)

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

   Synonym: diretor executivo