CEO

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.

• (chief executive officer): C.E.O., C. E. O.
• (current engine option): ceo

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:

     “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, […] ”

• COE, CoE, Coe, ECO, EOC, eco, eco-

Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

CEO m or f by sense (plural CEOs)

1. (business) CEO; chief executive officer (highest-ranking corporate officer)

   Synonym: diretor executivo