CTO

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noun

A cancelled-to-order postage stamp.

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Meanings

adjectiveCTO (not comparable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparablehobbiesInitialism of cancelled to order.
nounCTO (plural CTOs or CTO's)

plural CTOs · plural CTO's

  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of chief technology officer or chief technical officer.

    Senior employees can also pitch project ideas to upper-management and get funding to work on them, while junior employees are encouraged to “take ownership” over their assigned projects and to act as if they were the CTO of it.

    2023 November 28, JS Tan, “It's All Bullshit”, in The Baffler
  2. abbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of confidential treatment order.
  3. abbreviationinitialismcardiologyInitialism of chronic total occlusion.
  4. hobbiesA cancelled-to-order postage stamp.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
cancelled to orderchief information officerchief technology officer

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

CTO. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CTO

MLA

“CTO.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CTO. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “CTO,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CTO.

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