CEO
English
editNoun
editCEO (countable and uncountable, plural CEOs)
- (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
- (UK, countable) Initialism of civil enforcement officer.
- (aviation) Acronym of current engine option.
Alternative forms
editRelated terms
editchief executive officer
current engine option
Translations
editchief executive officer
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Verb
editCEO (third-person singular simple present CEOs, present participle CEOing, simple past and past participle CEOed)
- (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[1]:
- “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
editDutch
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English CEO.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editCEO m (plural CEO's, diminutive CEO'tje n)
- (business) CEO; chief executive officer
- Synonyms: algemeen directeur, bestuursvoorzitter
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “CEO” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Portuguese
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English CEO.
Pronunciation
edit
Noun
editCEO m or f by sense (plural CEOs)
- (business) CEO; chief executive officer (highest-ranking corporate officer)
- Synonym: diretor executivo
Swedish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English CEO.
Noun
editCEO c
- CEO; chief executive officer
- 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
editDeclension of CEO | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | CEO | CEO:n | CEO:er, CEO:s | CEO:erna |
Genitive | CEO:s | CEO:ens | CEO:ers | CEO:ernas |
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