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SOE

SOE

1 6.7
A company the government owns and runs
  • noun
  • Formal
translation icon : empresa estatal
  • SOE managers still had no right or power to make decisions autonomously on hiring, wages, or dismissals.
  • SOE employee
  • SOE privatization
  • SOE reform

So we said Beijing, they love SOE stayed owned the business.

Examples

  • Can China's urban economy absorb the SOE workers who stand to lose their jobs and their benefits?

    Academic text (2002)
  • Many jobs in the SOE sector offer stability and benefits that are not commonly found in private companies.

  • First, it was not universal but operated only in the SOE sector.

    Academic text (2001)
  • To reform this, the budget funding got cut, and SOE began to get loans from banks.

    Blog text (7)
  • Floaters have never enjoyed the same benefits and job security that SOE employees did.

    Academic text (2002)
  • A second but closely related instance of normative conflict is created by SOE reform and privatization.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Implementing the agreement governing WTO accession will lead China to reform the SOE sector and expand the rule of law in Chinese business and society.

    Academic text (2001)
  • SOE employees were regarded as China's labor aristocracy, largely because of these guarantees.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Additional reforms combine with demographic pressures to exacerbate the strains in the urban labor market generated by SOE reform.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The government launched a new initiative to improve efficiency in its SOE, hoping to boost services for the public.

Synonyms

parastatal
vsSOE
  • UK
9.7

An organization owned wholly or partly by the government

is fully owned and run by the government rather than partly controlled

How Privatized

denationalization
  • Specialized
8.7
partnership
161 2.9
SOE
  • Formal
1 6.7
nationalization
  • Specialized
9 7.0

Surface Forms

SOE singular
SOEs plural

Etymology

SOE stands for state-owned enterprise, which is literally a business 'owned' by the state or government. So an SOE is a company run by the government rather than by private owners.