C-Level Executives

[Grant Barrett]

I've sometimes seen it as "CxO" to refer to a high-level corporate
executive of an indeterminate title in the "C-suite," as in this
article:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1047919.cms

Grant Barrett
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The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (May 2006, McGraw-Hill)
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On Oct 5, 2006, at 15:17, Baker, John wrote:

>         This was a new one on me, but there are 345,000 Google
> hits.  It
> refers to chief _______ officers - CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, and so
> forth.
> (These are proliferating to such an extent that some of the
> abbreviations are not even unique.  A CIO, for instance, can be
> either a
> chief information officer or a chief investment officer.)  It seems to
> have originated as a marketing term.  Surprisingly, "C-level officers"
> does not appear to be common.  The earliest example I found was
> from The
> Plain Dealer, 8/5/1997:
>
>         "Senior executives, I have found, use the newsletter for
> confirmation. I'm talking about the so-called C - level executives
> here
> - the CEOs, COOs, and CFOs who run their own operations."
>
>
> John Baker
>
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