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say it: SEE-ee-oh
ceo is a noun meaning "the corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president)". It is pronounced /ˈsiˌiˈoʊ/ — SEE-ee-oh. It carries one recorded sense.
the corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ceo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.