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Definition: CIO |
CIONoun1. A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CIO | Dutch | Onderafdeling CIMIC en Informatieoperaties | European Union, Military & Defense |
CIO | English | Computer Integrated Office | N/A |
CIO | French | Comité international olympique | Sports & Leisure |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CIOSynonym: Congress of Industrial Organizations (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Carrier injection oscillator (computing, electrical engineering), Central Information Office (public administration), Central input/ouput multiplex (computing, post & telecom), Central Intelligence Organization (military & defense), Chief Information Officer (computing, information), Chief Intellectual Officer (economics), Chief Investment Officer (finance), CIMIC and Information Operations Branch (european union, military & defense), Computer Integrated Office (computing), Confederated Industrial Organizations (labor), Congress of industrial organisations (industry), Control Input/Output (computing), counter input/output. |
Crosswords: CIO |
| Non-English Usage: "CIO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (heat, rut, sexual desire). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | CIO red unions. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wipe out discrimination. CIO says "Wipe out discrimination" / Milton Ackoff. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | In 2000 Bernard Masara confessed to the editorial staff of The Daily News that he had been hired by the CIO to kill the editor. (references) |
Human Rights | Zimbabwe | In March a soldier reportedly died from injuries after he was tortured by police and CIO officers at the Harare Central police station. (references) |
Zimbabwe | The ZRP showed poor training in criminal apprehension and interrogation, and there were unconfirmed reports of human rights abuses by the CIO. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CIO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "CIO" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CIO": AFL-CIO. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
afl cio | 439 | cio cio san | 6 |
cio | 297 | canada cio | 5 |
cio magazine | 127 | afl cio union | 5 |
cio job | 24 | interim cio | 5 |
cio wanted | 17 | texas afl cio | 5 |
cio insight | 14 | cio dod | 5 |
cio resume | 13 | virtual cio | 5 |
afl cio.com | 11 | illinois afl cio | 5 |
cio council | 11 | history of afl cio | 4 |
cio job description | 10 | cio new york | 4 |
cio home.ihs.gov index.cfm itsc security | 10 | banque cio | 4 |
cio peter sunoco | 9 | cio directory | 4 |
afl cio credit union | 9 | afl cio massachusetts | 4 |
afl cio.org | 9 | cio webbusiness | 4 |
cio.com erp research | 8 | cio search | 4 |
part time cio | 7 | cio role | 4 |
cio cio.com | 6 | afl cio cio not | 3 |
ohio afl cio | 6 | afl cio minnesota | 3 |
cio salary | 6 | cio responsibility | 3 |
rent a cio | 6 | army cio | 3 |
cio council federal | 3 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CIO": cion, cions, cioppino, cioppinos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CIO": bocaccio, braggadocio, capriccio, carpaccio, internuncio, libeccio, nuncio, pasticcio, senecio. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CIO": aeciospore, aeciospores, afficionado, afficionados, aficionada, aficionadas, aficionado, aficionados, atrocious, atrociously, atrociousness, atrociousnesses, audacious, audaciously, audaciousness, audaciousnesses, auspicious, auspiciously, auspiciousness, auspiciousnesses, autoecious, autoeciously, avaricious, avariciously, avariciousness, avariciousnesses, bocaccios, bodacious, bodaciously, braciola, braciolas, braciole, bracioles, braggadocios, capacious, capaciously, capaciousness, capaciousnesses, capriccios, capricious, capriciously, capriciousness, capriciousnesses, carpaccios, coercion, coercions, conscionable, conscious, consciouses, consciously, consciousness. (additional references) | |
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"CIO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caio, Cbiol, Cdo, Ceao, Ceoe, Cico, Ciim, Ciip, Cij, Coic, Csie, Cuyo, Cyg, Cyh, Cymo, Cytob, Icoh, Ncito, Ncoic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-o" | |
+1 letter: ciao, cion, coif, coil, coin, coir, coni, fico, foci, icon, loci, odic, otic, zoic. | |
+2 letters: azoic, bocci, boric, chiao, chico, chino, chiro, choir, cibol, cions, cisco, coati, cobia, cocci, coifs, coign, coils, coins, coirs, colic, colin, comic, comix, conic, conin, corgi, coria, cosie, covin, cozie, croci, curio, dicot, disco, dolci, domic, hoick, ichor, icons, incog, iodic, ionic, logic, lotic, micro, nicol, oculi, ohmic, oleic, ontic, optic, orcin, orgic, osmic, picot, pisco, scion, sicko, sodic, sonic, stoic, tonic, topic, toric, toxic, voice, wilco, yogic, yonic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 49 4F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001001 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C I O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0049 004F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374349 |
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