SME

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sme"

Translingual

Symbol

SME

1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Suriname.

   Synonym: SUR (for general use)

Usage notes

This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO. The general-purpose code for Suriname is SUR.

English

Noun

SME (plural SMEs)

1. (business) Initialism of small and medium-sized enterprise or small- to medium-sized enterprise.

   Synonym: SMB

   • 2023 December 7, Bella Webb, “Finally, The EU Is Banning Fashion’s Dirty Secret: Destroying Unsold Goods”, in British Vogue‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-12-16:

     The ban on destroying unsold goods will be among the longer lead times: large businesses have two years to comply, and SMEs have been granted up to six years.

2. Initialism of subject matter expert.

Translations

Small and Medium-sized Enterprise

• Armenian: ՓՄՁ (PʻMJ)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 中小企 (zung¹ siu² kei⁵)

  Mandarin: 中小企 (zhōngxiǎoqǐ, zhōngxiǎoqì)

• Dutch: kmo (nl) f
• Finnish: pk-yritys
• French: PME (fr) f
• German: KMU (de) n
• Hungarian: kkv
• Indonesian: UKM
• Italian: PMI (it)
• Luxembourgish: PME f
• Malay: PKS (ms), IKS (ms)
• Polish: MŚP (pl) n pl
• Russian: МСП (ru) n pl (MSP)
• Spanish: pyme (es), PYME

Proper noun

SME

1. Initialism of Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

Further reading

• SME on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EMS, EMs, Ems, MES, MEs, MSE, SEM, Sem, ems, mes, mes-, sem