"SME" meaning in English

See SME in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} SME
  1. Initialism of Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Society of Manufacturing Engineers
    Sense id: en-SME-en-name-W8MbyXHx Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 14 34 38

Noun

Forms: SMEs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} SME (plural SMEs)
  1. (business) Initialism of small and medium-sized enterprise or small- to medium-sized enterprise. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: small and medium-sized enterprise or small- to medium-sized enterprise Categories (topical): Business Synonyms: SMB Translations (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise): ՓՄՁ (PʻMJ) (Armenian), 中小企 (zung¹ siu² kei⁵) (Chinese Cantonese), 中小企 (zhōngxiǎoqǐ, zhōngxiǎoqì) (Chinese Mandarin), kmo [feminine] (Dutch), pk-yritys (Finnish), PME [feminine] (French), KMU [neuter] (German), kkv (Hungarian), UKM (Indonesian), PMI (Italian), PME [feminine] (Luxembourgish), PKS (Malay), IKS (Malay), MŚP [neuter, plural] (Polish), МСП (MSP) [neuter, plural] (Russian), pyme (Spanish), PYME (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-SME-en-noun-HpTUSngN Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 14 34 38 Topics: business Disambiguation of 'Small and Medium-sized Enterprise': 70 30
  2. Initialism of subject matter expert. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: subject matter expert
    Sense id: en-SME-en-noun-GAfglenQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 14 34 38

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for SME meaning in English (5.3kB)

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