2023-04-19 07:42:34
It is preferable to write the term sme with lowercaseand not SME, SME o SME.
However, it is common to find examples in the media such as the following: “Advice and training for SMEs and the self-employed”, “An SME from Buenos Aires began the production of alfajores” or “What is an SME and what are its most typical characteristics?” .
The noun sme is collected in the Dictionary of the Spanish language with the meaning of ‘commercial, industrial company, etc., made up of a reduced number of workers, and with a moderate turnover volume’. This word, which originates from the acronym SME, of small and medium business, has already become a common name which is written in lowercase, as has happened with ovni, geo, grapo, opaetc.
On the other hand, these terms that have been formed from acronyms can have derivatives, such as herpesof opaand plurals, like talgosof talgoo SMEsfrom sme.
Therefore, in the previous examples, the appropriate thing to do would have been to write «Advice and training for SMEs and the self-employed», «A Buenos Aires SME began the production of alfajores» and «What is an SME and what are its most typical characteristics?».
The noun also has use and is valid MSMElowercaseacronym for microenterprise and small and medium enterprise the one of micro enterprise and SMEswhose plural is MSMEs.
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