: the executive with the chief decision-making authority in an organization or business

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Thompson was among several executives who ran UnitedHealth Group businesses with the title of CEO. Bruce Japsen, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025 Mark Wilson is the president and CEO of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Mark Wilson, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2025 Chris Jackson—Getty Images Latest in Leadership 6 hours ago Leadership - chief executive officer (CEO) Apple CEO pay rises 18%; company opposes anti-diversity measure BYBloomberg 13 hours ago Leadership - precious metals Is your company’s board ‘Trump friendly’? Paolo Confino, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2025 Musk, the founder and CEO of the commercial space transportation company, is hoping to win federal approval for SpaceX to quintuple the amount of flight tests conducted in 2024. Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025 Sho Dewan is a career coach, content creator, and the CEO & founder of Workhap. Sho Dewan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024 Besides Zuckerberg, Trump has hosted other Silicon Valley executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Adriana Gomez Licon and Michelle L. Price, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 Stealing the show is German actor Nina Hoss as the CEO of the company, leering over Zoom work meetings like a god phoning in from Mount Olympus, coolly detached and formidably out of touch as a corporate messiah. Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024 In November 2023, Wheeler Clinic CEO Sabrina Trocchi sent in several funding proposals to the Opioid Settlement Advisory Committee, or OSAC, an entity charged with determining how best to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars the state has reaped from opioid litigation settlements. Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 25 Dec. 2024

Word History

Etymology

chief executive officer

First Known Use

1914, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of CEO was in 1914

Dictionary Entries Near CEO

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“CEO.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CEO. Accessed 19 Jan. 2025.

Kids Definition

: the executive with the chief decision-making power in an organization or business
Etymology

chief executive officer

Legal Definition

CEO

noun
: the executive with the chief decision-making authority in an organization or business
Etymology

chief executive officer

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