# CEO
## English
### Noun

CEO (countable and uncountable, plural CEOs)
* (countable, business) Initialism of chief executive officer.
** 2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek‎:CEOs who once made 50 times the average worker’s salary made more than 500 times as much in 2001.
** 2015 January 2, Nicholas Carlson, “The Day Marissa Mayer's Honeymoon At Yahoo Ended”, in Business Insider‎, archived from the original on 2022-09-24: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.
** 2023 September 28, Benjamin Lindsay, quoting Kara Swisher, “Kara Swisher Defends Ex-Twitter Exec Upstaging CEO Linda Yaccarino”, in TheWrap‎: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.”
* (UK, countable) Initialism of civil enforcement officer.
* (aviation) Acronym of current engine option.

#### Alternative forms

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

#### Related terms

* CCO
* CFO
* CIO
* co-CEO
* CSO
* CTO
* CXO
* she-E-O
* NEO

#### Translations
### Verb

CEO (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:“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: /ˈsiːˈjoː/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

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

## Japanese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English CEO.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɕiːiːo̞ː]

### Noun

CEO(シーイーオー) • (shī-ī-ō)
* CEO

### References

* “CEO”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsi ˈi ˈow/ [ˈsi ˈi ˈoʊ̯]

### Noun

CEO m or f by sense (plural CEOs)
* (business) CEO; chief executive officer (highest-ranking corporate officer)
    Synonym: diretor executivo

## Swedish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English CEO.

### Noun

CEO c
* 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.