CIO
CIO is the initialism of Congress of Industrial Organizations.
CIO is the initialism of chief information officer.
CIO is the initialism of chief investment officer.
CIO is the initialism of chief innovation officer.
CIO is the initialism of Charitable incorporated organisation.
CIO is the initialism of cry it out.
Meaning of chief information officer
Noun
chief information officer (plural chief information officers)
- An executive who is in charge of the technical affairs of a business, notably as head of the information technology department, typically directly under the chief executive officer and/or the board.
- Near-synonyms: CITO, CTO, chief technology officer, CISO
- Synonyms:
- CIO, CITO, CTO, chief technology officer, CISO
Meaning of cry it out
Verb
cry it out (third-person singular simple present cries it out, present participle crying it out, simple past and past participle cried it out)
- Of a baby: to be left alone to cry until falling asleep (recommended in some approaches to parenting).
- The same rules for maintaining sleep should be used for autistic children as for typical children—short interventions that are not repeated, and a period in which the child “cries it out.”2007, Bryna Siegel, Helping Children with Autism Learn
Forms of CIO
| plural | CIOs |
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Questions about CIO
- What is CIO the initialism of?
- CIO is the initialism of Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: CIO (page history and authors); chief information officer (page history and authors); cry it out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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