CEO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

• CEO (noun)
  The noun CEO has 1 sense:

1. the corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president)

  Familiarity information: CEO used as a noun is very rare.

• CEO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

CEO; chief executive officer; chief operating officer

Hypernyms ("CEO" is a kind of...):

business executive; corporate executive (an executive in a business corporation)

 Context examples 

Merlin Burrows CEO Bruce Blackburn says his company used satellite data to comb an area that the group believed may have been the location of the thriving city.

(Researchers Claim to Have Found Mythical City of Atlantis in Spain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If you are self-employed or are at the helm of a company as CEO or a VIP manager, you are in line to reap a big harvest from last year’s work, and it may come in now or in the months to come.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)