Definition of "CEO"

CEO

noun
countable and uncountable, plural CEOs
1. (countable, business) Initialism of chief executive officer.
2. (UK, countable) Initialism of civil enforcement officer.
3. (aviation) Acronym of current engine option.
verb
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.
  Quotations
  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.”
  2018, Michael Andreoni, The Window Is a Mirror, Livonia, MI: BHC Press, page unknown
  “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, […] ”
  2020 March 2, Matt Levine, “Twitter Owner Wants Full-Time CEO”, in Bloomberg‎