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CLO

CLO is the initialism of chief legal officer.

CLO is the initialism of collateralized loan obligation.

CLO is the initialism of cod liver oil.

CLO is the initialism of campylobacter-like organism.

Meaning of chief legal officer

Noun

chief legal officer (plural chief legal officers)

  1. The highest-ranking corporate officer handling the legal affairs of a corporation, or agency.
    Synonyms:
    CLO, general counsel

Meaning of collateralized loan obligation

Noun

collateralized loan obligation (plural collateralized loan obligations)

  1. a form of securitization where payments from multiple middle-sized and large business loans are pooled together and passed on to different classes of owners in various tranches.
    Synonyms:
    CLO

Noun capitalized: Clo

Clo

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of close (in street addresses).
    • 33 Chestnut Clo, Anytown

Forms of CLO

pluralCLOs

Questions about CLO

What is CLO the initialism of?
CLO is the initialism of chief legal officer.
What part of speech is CLO?
CLO is a noun.
What is the plural of CLO?
The plural of CLO is CLOs.

Words near CLO in the dictionary

  1. cllrs
  2. CLLs
  3. clm
  4. CLN
  5. CLNs
  6. CLO
  7. clo' prop
  8. clo' props
  9. clo'es
  10. cloaca
  11. cloacae

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: CLO (page history and authors); Clo (page history and authors); chief legal officer (page history and authors); collateralized loan obligation (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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