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S.A. generally designates corporation
Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
s in various countries, mostly those employing the civil law
Civil law (legal system)

Civil law is a most prevalent legal system in the modern world and the oldest in human history. It is based on a code, or "a systematic collection of interrelated articles written in a terse, staccato style." The two other major legal systems in the world are common law and Islamic law....
. Though literally translated as anonymous company, anonymous partnership or share company, it is known more commonly in English as a public limited company
Public limited company

A public limited company is a type of limited company which is permitted to offer its stock to the public. The designation was introduced in the UK by the Companies Act 1980, and in the Republic of Ireland by the Companies Act 1983....
 and can be differentiated from partnership
Partnership

A partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business undertaking in which all have invested....
s and limited liability companies
Limited liability company

A limited liability company in the law of the vast majority of United States jurisdictions is a legal form of business company that provides limited liability to its owners....
.

S.A. meaning Société anonyme or "anonymous society/corporation" is the abbreviation of:






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S.A. generally designates corporation
Corporation

A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
s in various countries, mostly those employing the civil law
Civil law (legal system)

Civil law is a most prevalent legal system in the modern world and the oldest in human history. It is based on a code, or "a systematic collection of interrelated articles written in a terse, staccato style." The two other major legal systems in the world are common law and Islamic law....
. Though literally translated as anonymous company, anonymous partnership or share company, it is known more commonly in English as a public limited company
Public limited company

A public limited company is a type of limited company which is permitted to offer its stock to the public. The designation was introduced in the UK by the Companies Act 1980, and in the Republic of Ireland by the Companies Act 1983....
 and can be differentiated from partnership
Partnership

A partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business undertaking in which all have invested....
s and limited liability companies
Limited liability company

A limited liability company in the law of the vast majority of United States jurisdictions is a legal form of business company that provides limited liability to its owners....
.

S.A. meaning Société anonyme or "anonymous society/corporation" is the abbreviation of:
  • Sociedad Anónima or Sociedad por Acciones in Spanish
    Spanish language

    Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
    ; Societat Anònima in Catalan
    Catalan language

    Catalan is a Romance languages, the national language and official language of Andorra, and a official language in the Autonomous Communities of Spain of the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencian Community and in the city of Alghero in the Italy List of islands in the Mediterranean of Sardinia....
     (Variations include "S.A. de C.V." = "sociedad anónima de capital variable" and "S.A.B. de C.V." = "sociedad anónima bursátil de capital variable".)
  • Sociedade Anónima in Galician
    Galician language

    Galician is a language of the Iberian Romance languages branch, spoken in Galicia , an Autonomous communities of Spain located in northwestern Spain, as well as in small bordering zones in the neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castile and Le?n and in Northern Portugal....
     and in Portuguese
    Portuguese language

    Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
    ; Sociedade Anônima in Brazilian Portuguese
    Brazilian Portuguese

    Brazilian Portuguese is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by virtually all the 189 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay....
  • Sociedá Anónima in Leonese
    Leonese language

    The Leonese language was developed from Vulgar Latin with contributions from the pre-Roman languages which were spoken in the territory of the Spanish provinces of Le?n , Zamora, and Salamanca and in some villages in the District of Bragan?a, Portugal....
  • Società Anonima in Swiss Italian
  • Société anonyme in French
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
     (as commonly used in most French speaking countries, such as France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania and various African countries)


It is equivalent in both literal meaning and practical function to:
  • Anonim Sirket (A.S.) in Turkish
    Turkish language

    Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
  • Anonymi Etairia (A.E.) or ?????µ? ?ta???a in Greek
    Greek language

    Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
  • Naamloze Vennootschap (N.V.) in Dutch
    Dutch language

    Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
  • Perseroan Terbatas Terbuka (P.T. Tbk.) in Indonesia
  • Sendirian Berhad (Sdn.Bhd.) in Malaysia
  • Shoqëri Anonime (Sh.a.) in Albania
    Albanian language

    Albanian is an Indo-European languages spoken by nearly 6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including the west of the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and southern Serbia....


It is equivalent in practical function to the German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 Aktiengesellschaft
Aktiengesellschaft

Aktiengesellschaft is a German language term that refers to a corporation that is limited by share s, i.e. owned by shareholders, and may be traded on a stock market....
 (AG).