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ceo

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noun
  1. 1

    Initialism of chief executive officer.abbreviationalt-ofcountable

    • 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.
  2. 2

    Initialism of chief executive officer.; A notional title for a leading partaker in, or advocate of something or someone.Internetcountablehumorous

    • Hey. CEO. Of. Racism. Made. You. Some. Lunch. 👊🏾 .😡
  3. 3

    Initialism of civil enforcement officer.UKabbreviationalt-of

  4. 4

    Acronym of current engine option.abbreviationacronymalt-of

  5. 5

    Initialism of city engineering office.Philippinesabbreviationalt-of

verb
  1. 1

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

    • 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 stu
    • “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 CE

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