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Chief executive officer   /tʃif ɪgzˈɛkjətɪv ˈɔfəsər/   Listen
Chief executive officer

noun
1.
The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president).  Synonyms: CEO, chief operating officer.






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"Chief executive officer" Quotes from Famous Books



... rather more than kept pace with these improvements. He was but twenty-six years of age when Union N. Bethell, head of the New York company, picked Carty to take charge of the telephone engineering work in the metropolis. Bethell was Vail's chief executive officer, and under him Carty received an invaluable training in executive work. Carty's largest task was putting the wires underground, and here again he was a tremendous success. He found ways to make ...
— Masters of Space - Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty • Walter Kellogg Towers

... recognizing in it that deep and devoted attachment on the part of the people to the institutions under which we live which proclaims their perpetuity. The great objection which has always prevailed against the election by the people of their chief executive officer has been the apprehension of tumults and disorders which might involve in ruin the entire Government. A security against this is found not only in the fact before alluded to, trot in the additional fact that we live under a Confederacy embracing ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various



Words linked to "Chief executive officer" :   CEO, corporate executive, chief operating officer, business executive



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