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Definition of ceo

7 senses · 2 parts of speech

noun

(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)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.”
“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.”
“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.””

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noun

(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)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.”
“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.”
“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.””
(Internet, countable, humorous, uncountable)Initialism of chief executive officer.

“Hey. CEO. Of. Racism. Made. You. Some. Lunch. 👊🏾 .😡”
(UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism)Initialism of civil enforcement officer.
(abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of current engine option.
(Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of city engineering office.
(alt-of, countable, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of CEO.

verb

(informal, intransitive)To serve as the chief executive officer (CEO) of an organization or company.

“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.””
““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, […]””

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