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Meaning of CEO | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of CEO.
    alt-of, countable, uncountable
  2. Initialism of chief executive officer.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
  3. Initialism of civil enforcement officer.
    UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism
  4. Acronym of current engine option.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  5. Initialism of city engineering office.
    Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”
“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.””

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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