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C-suite

C-suite noun: the group of officers of a business organization who have the word chief in their titles.

Noun

C-suite (plural C-suites)

  1. The group of officers of a business organization who have the word chief in their titles.
    • Near-synonym: CXO
    • THE customer is king. So some firms have started appointing chief customer officers (CCOs) to serve the king more attentively. These new additions to the (already crowded) C-suite are supposed to look at the business from the customer’s point of view.2012 September 22, “Schumpeter: The magic of good service”, in The Economist
    Synonyms:
    C-level, CXO
  2. Senior headquarters executives: the chiefs and their immediate subordinates.

Synonyms of C-suite

Forms of C-suite

pluralC-suites

Origin of C-suite

From C in chief + suite.

Questions about C-suite

What does C-suite mean?
C-suite means the group of officers of a business organization who have the word chief in their titles.
What part of speech is C-suite?
C-suite is a noun.
What is the plural of C-suite?
The plural of C-suite is C-suites.

Words near C-suite in the dictionary

  1. C-strings
  2. C-style comment
  3. C-style comments
  4. C-style string
  5. C-style strings
  6. C-suite
  7. C-suiter
  8. C-suiters
  9. C-suites
  10. C-terminal
  11. C-terminals

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