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SOE en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of state-owned enterprise.
   alt of state-owned enterprise
   • 2012, The Economist, Oct 6th 2012 issue, China’s state capitalism: Not just tilting at windmills Having seen post-Soviet state assets fall into the hands of oligarchs, China built up a select group of SOEs with cheap loans, land and energy, so that the wealth would remain with the party.

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crown corporation

Translations (7)

vi DNNN (state-owned enterprise) · id BUMN (state-owned enterprise) · uk ДП (state-owned enterprise) · pl PP (state-owned enterprise) · ru ГП (state-owned enterprise) · id PN (state-owned enterprise) · cmn 國企 /国企 (state-owned enterprise)

SOE en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism, qualifier:World War II) Initialism of Special Operations Executive.
   alt of Special Operations Executive
   • His luck was that SOE needed people fluent in European languages – a need that soon spawned the creation of an entire commando unit made up of largely Jewish refugees that became known as X-Troop. 2021 May 9, Andrew Gumbel, “Raid on Dieppe masked secret mission to steal Nazis’ Enigma machine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: