pyme

SME

noun PEE-meh Rare

Origin: Acronym of Pequeña y Mediana Empresa (Small and Medium-sized Enterprise).

Also means

small business

Usage Note

Pyme (also written PYME) is the standard Spanish abbreviation for a small or medium-sized business, equivalent to 'SME' in English. Despite ending in -e, it is grammatically feminine (una pyme, las pymes) because empresa is feminine — the seed gender 'm' is incorrect. The plural pymes is regular.

Examples

"Las pymes representan la mayoría de las empresas del país."

Natural Translation

SMEs represent the majority of businesses in the country.

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