CEO

See also: ceo, ce-o, 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
• co-CEO
• CSO
• CTO
• CXO
• she-E-O

 

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 (da) c
• Dutch: CEO (nl) m, bestuursvoorzitter (nl) m, algemeen directeur m
• Finnish: TJ (fi), tj
• French: PDG (fr)
• Hebrew: מנכ״ל (mankal)
• Italian: AD (it)
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: главни извршни равнатељ m, главни извршни директор m

  Roman: glavni izvršni ravnatelj m, glavni izvršni direktor m

• Spanish: director ejecutivo m, gerente general m (America), presidente ejecutivo m (Spain)
• Swedish: CEO (sv) c, VD (sv) c, vd (sv) c
• Turkish: YKB (tr)
• Vietnamese: giám đốc điều hành

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^[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

• COE, CoE, Coe, ECO, EOC, eco, eco-

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːˈjoː/

• Audio:

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Noun

CEO m (plural CEO's, diminutive CEO'tje n)

1. (business) CEO; chief executive officer

   Synonyms: algemeen directeur, bestuursvoorzitter

Derived terms

• CEO-belasting
• CEO-fraude

 

Further reading

• “CEO” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

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

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

Noun

CEO c

1. CEO; chief executive officer

   Synonyms: VD, vd

   • 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

Declension of CEO

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	CEO	CEO:s
	definite	CEO:n	CEO:ens
plural	indefinite	CEO:er, CEO:s	CEO:ers
	definite	CEO:erna	CEO:ernas