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EIC

EIC is the initialism of editor-in-chief.

EIC is the initialism of engineer in charge.

EIC is the initialism of East India Company.

Meaning of editor-in-chief

Noun

editor-in-chief (plural editors-in-chief)

  1. The highest-ranking editor on an editorial staff.
    • “He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission,” Gideon Lichfield, the Review’s editor-in-chief, explained Tuesday on Twitter.2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost

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Forms of EIC

pluralEICs

Questions about EIC

What is EIC the initialism of?
EIC is the initialism of editor-in-chief.

Words near EIC in the dictionary

  1. Eiben
  2. Eibens
  3. Eibit
  4. EIBs
  5. Eibsee
  6. EIC
  7. EICAS
  8. Eich
  9. eichbergite
  10. Eichel
  11. Eichelberger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: EIC (page history and authors); editor-in-chief (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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