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Appendix:Variations of "ceo"
English
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-CEO.wav Southern England
Noun
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en Q484876 en countable business en chief executive officer<id:Q484876>.
en CXO<id:Chief [X] Officer, with variable> officer#Noun < person#Noun
en COO<id:Q623279> ; more at [[CXO#English:_Chief [X] Officer, with variable CXO § Hyponyms]]
en internet slang humorous A notional title for a leading partaker in, or advocate of something or someone.
en 2019-08-27 dennisrodman 1166475678478241792 Dennis Rodman Hey. CEO. Of. Racism. Made. You. Some. Lunch. 👊🏾 .😡 https://web.archive.org/web/20190827225401/https://twitter.com/dennisrodman/status/1166475678478241792 27 August 2019 27 February 2026
en w:Evan Thomas Why It’s Time to Worry w:Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/04/the-deepest-dangers-facing-the-united-states.html 2010-12-04 CEOs who once made 50 times the average worker’s salary made more than 500 times as much in 2001. https://web.archive.org/web/20261015125729/https://www.newsweek.com/deepest-dangers-facing-united-states-68883 15 October 2026
en https://web.archive.org/web/20220924052155/http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-yahoo-nicholas-carlson-book-excerpt-2014-12 w:Business Insider 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. The Day Marissa Mayer's Honeymoon At Yahoo Ended 2015-01-02 Nicholas Carlson
en-US w:Kara Swisher https://www.thewrap.com/kara-swisher-defends-twitter-yoel-roth-linda-yaccarino-code-conference/ Kara Swisher Defends Ex-Twitter Exec Upstaging CEO Linda Yaccarino TheWrap 2023-09-28 Benjamin Lindsay 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.” https://web.archive.org/web/20260513071237/https://www.thewrap.com/kara-swisher-defends-twitter-yoel-roth-linda-yaccarino-code-conference/ 13 May 2026
en UK countable en civil enforcement officer.
en aviation en current engine option.
en Philippines government en city engineering office.
Alternative forms
chief executive officer en C.E.O. C. E. O.
current engine option en ceo
Related terms
en chief executive officer co-CEO CCO CFO CIO CSO CTO CXO she-E-O
en current engine option NEO
Translations
chief executive officer
Arabic: ar الرَّئِيس التَّنْفِيذِيّ m, ar الرَّئِيسَة التَّنْفِيذِيَّة f
Bengali: bn প্রধান নির্বাহী কর্মকর্তা prôdhan nirbahi kôrmôkôrta
Bulgarian: bg ГИД m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 最高執行官 zuìgāo zhíxíngguān, cmn 首席執行官 shǒuxí zhíxíngguān, cmn 執行總裁 zhíxíng zǒngcái, cmn 總裁 zǒngcái
Danish: da administrerende direktør c, da CEO c
Dutch: nl CEO m, nl bestuursvoorzitter m, nl algemeen directeur m
Esperanto: eo firmaestro
Finnish: fi TJ, fi tj
French: fr PDG
Hebrew: he מנכ״ל mankal
Hindi: hi मुख्य कार्यकारी अधिकारी m, hi मुख्य कार्यकारी अधिकारिणी f, hi मु॰का॰अ॰
Italian: it AD
Japanese: ja CEO shī-ī-ō
Norwegian: no adm.dir, no administrerende direktør
Polish: pl CEO m f
Portuguese: pt CEO m f, pt diretor executivo m
Romanian: ro DG
Russian: ru генди́р m informal, ru генера́льный дире́ктор m formal
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh главни извршни равнатељ m, sh главни извршни директор m
Latin: sh glavni izvršni ravnatelj m, sh glavni izvršni direktor m
Spanish: es director / gerente / presidente ejecutivo / general
Swedish: sv CEO c, sv VD c, sv vd c
Turkish: tr YKB
Vietnamese: vi giám đốc điều hành
Verb
en intransitive informal To serve as the chief executive officer (CEO) of an organization or company.
en 2018 Michael Andreoni The Window Is a Mirror Livonia, MI BHC Press 9781948540384 89J2DwAAQBAJ 115 unknown CEOing 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.”
en 2020-03-02 Matt Levine Twitter Owner Wants Full-Time CEO Bloomberg News Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-02/twitter-owner-wants-full-time-ceo “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, ” https://web.archive.org/web/20200325041316/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-02/twitter-owner-wants-full-time-ceo
Anagrams
en ceo COE CoE Coe ECO EOC eco eco-
en Occupations People
Dutch
Etymology
nl en CEO.
Pronunciation
nl /ˈsiːˈjoː/
nl Nl-CEO.ogg
Noun
m -'s -'tje
nl business en CEO; chief executive officer
nl algemeen directeur bestuursvoorzitter
Derived terms
nl CEO-fraude CEO-belasting
Further reading
nl Occupations
Japanese
Etymology
ja en CEO.
Pronunciation
シーイーオー
Noun
シー-イー-オー
en CEO
References
ja Occupations
ja terms written in foreign scripts
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :ubor en:CEO + 1
Pronunciation
ci i ôw
Noun
mfbysense #s
pt business en CEO; chief executive officer highest-ranking corporate officer
pt diretor executivo
pt Occupations
Spanish
Etymology
es :bor en:CEO + 1
Pronunciation
Noun
mfbysense #,#s
es business en CEO; en chief executive officer
es Alexis Benveniste El listado Fortune 500 ahora tiene un número récord de mujeres CEO: apenas 39 w:CNN en Español https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2020/09/10/fortune-500-mujeres-cero-39 2020-09-10 Fraser se une a otras 38 mujeres en la lista de CEOs de Fortune 500, conformada en su mayoría por blancos y hombres. https://web.archive.org/web/20251123054218/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2020/09/10/fortune-500-mujeres-cero-39 23 November 2025
es Sandee LaMotte Las nuevas guías para el sueño seguro de los bebés insisten en no dormir en la cama con ellos, ni usar decoraciones o camas inclinadas w:CNN en Español https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/06/21/nuevas-guias-sueno-seguro-bebes-trax 2022-06-21 “Una buena manera de comprobar si una superficie es demasiado blanda es presionar la mano hacia abajo y luego levantarla. Si la mano deja una hendidura, es demasiado blanda”, dijo Alison Jacobson, CEO de First Candle, una organización nacional sin ánimo de lucro comprometida con la eliminación del síndrome de muerte súbita del lactante y otras muertes infantiles relacionadas con el sueño a través de la educación y la defensoría. https://web.archive.org/web/20241112170751/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/06/21/nuevas-guias-sueno-seguro-bebes-trax/ 12 November 2024
es Matt Egan Los CEO ganan casi 200 veces más que sus trabajadores w:CNN en Español https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2024/06/04/ceo-ganan-200-veces-mas-trabajadores-trax 2024-06-04 Los patrones siempre ganaron más dinero que los trabajadores. Pero la brecha entre los CEO y los empleados no para de crecer.El CEO promedio del S&P 500 se ganó 196 veces más que el empleado promedio en 2023, según un análisis de Equilar y The Associated Press. https://web.archive.org/web/20260111004732/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2024/06/04/ceo-ganan-200-veces-mas-trabajadores-trax/ 11 January 2026
es Occupations
Swedish
Etymology
sv en CEO.
Noun
c
en CEO; chief executive officer
sv VD vd
sv 21 April 2019 Andreas Rågsjö Thorell Resumé (magazine) Resumé 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" https://www.resume.se/insikt/karriarsondag/kundfokus-jag-brukar-skamtsamt-saga-att-jag-tog-rollen-for-titeln/ 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20231015221951/https://www.resume.se/insikt/karriarsondag/kundfokus-jag-brukar-skamtsamt-saga-att-jag-tog-rollen-for-titeln/ 15 October 2023
Declension
sv CEO CEO:n CEO:er, CEO:s CEO:erna CEO:s CEO:ens CEO:ers CEO:ernas