small and medium enterprise

collocation in English

meaningsofsmall,mediumandenterprise

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small
adjective
uk
/smɔːl/us
/smɑːl/
little in size or amount when compared with what is typical ...
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medium
adjective
uk
/ˈmiː.di.əm/us
/ˈmiː.di.əm/
being in the middle between an upper and lower amount, size, degree, ...
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enterprise
noun
uk
/ˈen.tə.praɪz/us
/ˈen.t̬ɚ.praɪz/
an organization, especially a business, or a difficult and important plan, especially one that will ...
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(Definition ofsmall,mediumandenterprisefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, this needs active guidance from state bodies in order to promote small andmediumenterprise engagement, as well as mediate between the interest of capital and labour.
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The ultimate and main protagonist of the internal market is the citizen and the small andmediumenterprise.
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Secondly, a new enterprise fund will stimulate the availability of finance for the small andmediumenterprisesector.
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The proposed support will form one element of a package of measures to support small andmediumenterprisefinance.
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There are no official statistics on the number of small andmediumenterprisefailures by constituency.
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We must not forget the whole small andmediumenterprisesector, including both small-scale manufacturers and retailers.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We needed to look at various issues: the hospital issue, the small andmediumenterpriseissue, the medical devices issue.
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Those are to be found particularly in the small andmediumenterprisesector.
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The priority in the "non sectors", as they are called, are agriculture, financial services, small andmediumenterprisedevelopment, energy and good government.
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Business link boards are business-led; this ensures that business has a strong voice in the development of services focused on the needs of small andmediumenterprisecustomers.
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Its popularity with small andmediumenterprisestarted with consolidating multiple vendors into one communication package for subscribing companies.
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The small andmediumenterprisesector (100-5,000 employees) predominates.
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Its main products are housing finance, small andmediumenterprisefinance, foreign investment finance, export and import finance, and development aid.
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He also managed amediumenterprisedesigning, assembling and trading bicycles and bicycle parts.
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These applications provided additional productivity enhancing elements to small andmediumenterprisecompanies.
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The focus was initially about providing solutions to small andmediumenterprisemarket.
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Its design aims at the needs of small andmediumenterprisewith the need for long-term archiving and document management.
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The reason for more small and medium enterprises to report loss of assets is because these firms are relatively more asset rich than micro enterprises.
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