CEO

Examples

• All

• I'm the CEO of this company, okay?

  Air (2023)

• Roger Phillips is President and CEO of IPSCO, Inc., a post he has held since 1982.

  Academic text (1991)

• And that person is now CEO of their own company.

• I know your CEO is the big boss.

  Vusi Thembekwayo

• You regularly named the top CEO in South Africa.

• Ask any Fortune 500 CEO if what happened yesterday, or last year, or ten years ago matters.

  Academic text (2011)

• Let's listen to Jamie Diamond, CEO of Chase Bank.

• A week later, the wife of the Pfizer CEO died.

  Lex Fridman

• I want to give one more round of applause... to our host, the CEO of King-Tech.

  Blink Twice (2024)

• The CEO of our company outlined the budget for the next year.

Synonyms

C

chief

vsCEO

∞ 1.9

A person who leads a group or community

is the corporate top executive with companywide management responsibility

B

boss

vsCEO

∞ 1.0

A person in charge of a group or workers

is the single highest company officer responsible for total management

H

head

vsCEO

∞ 2.2

A person who is in charge of a group or organization

is specifically the top company executive responsible for overall performance

C

chief executive officer

vsCEO

34 3.6

A person who leads a company and makes its main decisions

is the familiar short form commonly used in business speech

M

managing director

vsCEO

• UK

26 3.6

The person who runs a company and makes its most important decisions

is responsible for broader corporate performance and strategic decisions

H

head honcho

vsCEO

• Slang

9 6.3

A person who is in charge of a company or group

is the formal official top executive responsible for companywide decisions

S

supremo

vsCEO

3 8.4

A person who is the most important leader in a group or organization

is the corporate role focused on formal management and company performance

How Senior

CEO

678 3.5

vice president

352 3.4

director

∞ 3.0

manager

∞ 1.6

employee

∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology