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# ceo

«ceo» in Mova's school dictionary: **Chief Executive Officer: the most important manager of a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

abbreviation (CEO, CEOs) — noun

### meaning for a pupil

Chief Executive Officer: the most important manager of a company or organisation, who makes the big decisions and leads the other managers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/ceo/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In money and careers lessons, the CEO is the boss of a business, answering to a board of directors. In news, CEOs of big tech or car companies are often in the headlines. Children sometimes joke «I'm the CEO of snacks» meaning in charge of something.

### examples

- The CEO announced a new phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/ceo/#x1)
- My mum is the CEO of a small charity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/ceo/#x2)
- The CEO reports to the board of directors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/ceo/#x3)
- She started the company and became its CEO. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/ceo/#x4)
- The CEO visited the factory workers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/ceo/#x5)
- He joked he was CEO of the family's TV remote. (informal) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/ceo/#x6)

### note

An abbreviation, written in capitals: CEO, plural CEOs; said letter by letter «see-ee-oh». The input is lower case only because of the word list. Use «a CEO» (because it starts with a consonant sound «see»). Similar titles: managing director (UK), president.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ceo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/ceo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.