| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| SOE | Special Operations Executive (World War II; UK) |
| SOE | Sony Online Entertainment Inc. |
| SOE | State of the Environment (AU) |
| SOE | Special Operations Executive (British organisation responsible for training and coordinating the operations of partisan groups in occupied countries, WWII) |
| SOE | Scope of Employment |
| SOE | School of Education |
| SOE | School of Engineering |
| SOE | Spirit of Excellence (various organizations) |
| SOE | System of Entry |
| SOE | Sale of Equipment |
| SOE | Supervisor of Elections |
| SOE | Society of Engineers (various locations) |
| SOE | State-Owned Enterprise |
| SOE | Spirit of Enterprise (various locations) |
| SOE | Status of Eligibility (Florida) |
| SOE | Special Operation Equipment |
| SOE | Standard Operating Environment |
| SOE | Section of Epidemiology (various organizations) |
| SOE | Spirit of Elijah |
| SOE | State of Emergency (game and game term) |
| SOE | Sequence Of Events |
| SOE | Standards of Evidence |
| SOE | Symbol of Excellence |
| SOE | Serial over Ethernet |
| SOE | Solaris Operating Environment |
| SOE | Sound over Ethernet |
| SOE | Svenska Offroad Entusiasterna (Swedish forum) |
| SOE | School of Evangelism (Youth with a Mission secondary training school) |
| SOE | Schedule Of Events |
| SOE | Society of Operations Engineers |
| SOE | Standards of Excellence |
| SOE | Secret Operations Executive (UK) |
| SOE | Sisters of Elune (role-playing) |
| SOE | Secret of Evermore (video game) |
| SOE | System Operational Effectiveness (US DoD) |
| SOE | Statement of Expenditure |
| SOE | Small Open Economy (market model) |
| SOE | Secretary of Energy (sometimes seen as 'S of E') |
| SOE | Small Office Edition |
| SOE | Server Operating Environment (computing) |
| SOE | Sum of Exponentials (mathematics) |
| SOE | Splicing-by-Overlap Extension |
| SOE | Special Ops Edition (OCZ Technology) |
| SOE | Sega of Europe |
| SOE | Socially Owned Enterprise |
| SOE | Scroll of Escape (Lineage 2 game) |
| SOE | Support of Excavation (construction) |
| SOE | Sales Order Entry |
| SOE | Sindicat Occitan de l'Educacion (French education union) |
| SOE | Senior Officials Exercise |
| SOE | Service Order Entry |
| SOE | Strength of Earth Totem (gaming, World of Warcraft) |
| SOE | Safe Operating Envelope |
| SOE | Soldiers of Europe (gaming clan) |
| SOE | Standard Office Environment |
| SOE | Share of Expenditure (finance) |
| SOE | Subwavelength Optical Elements |
| SOE | Secondary Optical Element (optics) |
| SOE | Status Of Equipment |
| SOE | Software Operating Environment |
| SOE | Stationary Operating Engineer (facilities personnel) |
| SOE | Southern Ocean Exploration (Melbourne, Australia) |
| SOE | Small Operating Equipment |
| SOE | Shades of Elegance |
| SOE | Sum Of Errors |
| SOE | Standard Option Equipment |
| SOE | Submerged Operating Envelope (submarine design) |
| SOE | Sponsor Owned Equipment (US Navy) |
| SOE | Short of Exchange |
| SOE | Synthetic Operational Environment |
| SOE | Servodrive Profile over EtherCAT |