CXO (SEE.eks.oh) n. Generic term for a corporate officer, such as a CEO (chief executive officer) or CFO (chief financial officer). Also: CxO. Example Citation: CXOs are top executives who have chief in their title — chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief information officers and so on. No middle managers need apply. —Shannon Henry, Failure Trickles Down, Too, The Washington Post, March 22, 2001 Earliest Citation: According to David R. Curry, Exec! Publisher and Unisys Vice President, Corporate Public Affairs: Our goal with Exec! is to become the destination website for senior managers. We know that executives at the CxO level—- CEOs, COOs, and CFOs - are venturing out onto the Web. We know that they are expecting to find a wealth of information, but instead encounter chaos. What they don t find is an intelligent or efficient way to get at what might be useful or interesting. Exec!, with its special CxO Resources service, identifies, evaluates, organizes and presents the best Web content and resources for CxOs. — Unisys and Chief Executive Magazine launch web initiative for CEOs, M2 Presswire, January 9, 1997 Notes: CXOs are also called C titles, and they re known collectively as the C-suite or the C-level. Here s a list of CXOs that I compiled while researching this term: chief academic officer chief accounting officer chief acquisition officer chief administration officer chief administrative officer chief advertising officer chief antidiscrimination officer chief awareness officer chief banking officer

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