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S.A. generally designates corporations in various countries, mostly those employing the civil law. Though literally translated as anonymous society, anonymous company, anonymous partnership, or share company, it is known more commonly in English as a public limited company and can be differentiated from partnerships and limited liability companies. In American English they are called joint-stock-companies.
S.A. can be an abbreviation of:
- Template:Lang or Template:Lang in Spanish; variations include "S.A. de C.V.", Template:Lang and "S.A.B. de C.V.", Template:Lang for publicly traded companies in Mexico
- Template:Lang in Catalan
- Template:Lang in Galician and in Portuguese (as well as in Macao SAR of China);
- Template:Lang in Asturian and Leonese
- Template:Lang in Italian
- Template:Lang in French (as commonly used in French-speaking countries, such as France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Monaco; and in partially Francophone countries like Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania and various other African countries)
- Template:Lang in Polish
- Template:Lang in Romanian
It is equivalent in both literal meaning and practical function to:
- Template:Lang in Turkish
- Template:Lang (Template:Lang) in Greek
- Template:Lang in Dutch
- Template:Lang in Indonesia
- Template:Lang in Malaysia
- Template:Lang in Albania
It is equivalent in practical function to:
- Osakeyhtiö (Oy) in Finnish
- Aktiengesellschaft (AG) in German
- Aktiebolag (AB) in Swedish
- Aktieselskab (A/S) in Danish
- Template:Lang (a.s.) in Czech
- Template:Lang (АД) in Macedonian
- Template:Lang (АО) in Russian
- Template:Lang (АД) in Bulgarian
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