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CEO en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism) Initialism of chief executive officer.
   alt of chief executive officer
   • 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.” 2023 September 28, Benjamin Lindsay, quoting Kara Swisher, “Kara Swisher Defends Ex-Twitter Exec Upstaging CEO Linda Yaccarino”, in TheWrap:
   • CEOs who once made 50 times the average worker’s salary made more than 500 times as much in 2001. 2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek:
   • 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. 2015 January 2, Nicholas Carlson, “The Day Marissa Mayer's Honeymoon At Yahoo Ended”, in Business Insider, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2022:
2. (Internet, countable, humorous, uncountable) Initialism of chief executive officer. ▸ A notional title for a leading partaker in, or advocate of something or someone.
   • Hey. CEO. Of. Racism. Made. You. Some. Lunch. 👊🏾 .😡 2019 August 27, Dennis Rodman, “Archived copy”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2019:
3. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism) Initialism of civil enforcement officer.
   alt of civil enforcement officer
4. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable) Acronym of current engine option.
   alt of current engine option
5. (Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of city engineering office.
   alt of city engineering office

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Coordinates

COO · COO · more at [[CXO · more at [[CXO

Hypernyms

person · person · CXO · officer · CXO · officer

Relateds

CXO (chief executive officer) · CTO (chief executive officer) · CCO (chief executive officer) · NEO (current engine option) · CFO (chief executive officer) · CIO (chief executive officer) · she-E-O (chief executive officer) · CSO (chief executive officer) · co-CEO (chief executive officer)

Translations (36)

da CEO (chief executive officer) · bn প্রধান নির্বাহী কর্মকর্তা (chief executive officer) · fi tj (chief executive officer) · bg ГИД (chief executive officer) · vi giám đốc điều hành (chief executive officer) · nl bestuursvoorzitter (chief executive officer) · da administrerende direktør (chief executive officer) · fr PDG (chief executive officer) · he מנכ״ל (chief executive officer) · cmn 最高執行官 /最高执行官 (chief executive officer) · sv VD (chief executive officer) · no adm.dir (chief executive officer) · cmn 首席執行官 /首席执行官 (chief executive officer) · es director / gerente / presidente ejecutivo / general (chief executive officer) · sh главни извршни директор (chief executive officer) · no administrerende direktør (chief executive officer) · hi मुख्य कार्यकारी अधिकारी (chief executive officer) · ro DG (chief executive officer) · sh glavni izvršni direktor (chief executive officer) · it AD (chief executive officer) · pl CEO (chief executive officer) · sh glavni izvršni ravnatelj (chief executive officer) · fi TJ (chief executive officer) · eo firmaestro (chief executive officer) · pt CEO (chief executive officer) · ru генди́р (chief executive officer) · ru генера́льный дире́ктор (chief executive officer) · sv vd (chief executive officer) · sh главни извршни равнатељ (chief executive officer) · sv CEO (chief executive officer) · nl algemeen directeur (chief executive officer) · cmn 執行總裁 /执行总裁 (chief executive officer) · pt diretor executivo (chief executive officer) · nl CEO (chief executive officer) · tr YKB (chief executive officer) · cmn 總裁 /总裁 (chief executive officer)

wikidata: Q484876 · wikidata: Q484876

CEO en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (informal, intransitive) To serve as the chief executive officer (CEO) of an organization or company.
   • “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, […]” 2020 March 2, Matt Levine, “Twitter Owner Wants Full-Time CEO”, in Bloomberg, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2020:
   • 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.” 2018, Michael Andreoni, The Window Is a Mirror, Livonia, MI: BHC Press, →ISBN, page unknown:

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