| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| SAE | Society of Automotive Engineers (Warrendale, PA) |
| SAE | Self-Addressed Envelope |
| SAE | Stamped Addressed Envelope |
| SAE | Supervised Agricultural Experience |
| SAE | Serious Adverse Event |
| SAE | Serious Adverse Event (clinical trials) |
| SAE | Sigma Alpha Epsilon |
| SAE | Services aux Entreprises (French: Business Services; Canada) |
| SAE | Senior Account Executive |
| SAE | Significant Adverse Event (medical reaction) |
| SAE | Senior Associate Editor |
| SAE | School of Audio Engineering |
| SAE | Siamese Algae Eater (tropical aquarium fish) |
| SAE | Senior Application Engineer |
| SAE | Sales Account Executive |
| SAE | Service Acquisition Executive |
| SAE | Small Area Estimation (statistics) |
| SAE | Small Animal Emergency (various locations) |
| SAE | Self-Assessment Examination |
| SAE | Sales Application Engineer |
| SAE | Self Appointed Expert |
| SAE | Secretaría de Análisis Estratégico (Guatemala) |
| SAE | Suitable Alternative Employment |
| SAE | Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (various organizations) |
| SAE | Security Awareness and Enforcement |
| SAE | Society of Automotive Engineers |
| SAE | System Architecture Evolution (3GPP) |
| SAE | Services aux Etudiants (French: Student Services; Canada) |
| SAE | Soutien aux Enfants (French: Support for Children; tax credit) |
| SAE | Screen Archives Entertainment (Linden, VA) |
| SAE | Scholarship for Academic Excellence (New York) |
| SAE | Self-Assessment Exercise |
| SAE | Standard American English |
| SAE | South American Explorers |
| SAE | Sexual Assault Evidence |
| SAE | Sexual Assault Examiner |
| SAE | Standard Australian English |
| SAE | School Age Enrichment (program; various locations) |
| SAE | Strategic Account Executive |
| SAE | Scientific Audio Electronics (1968-1992) |
| SAE | Site Area Emergency (Nuclear) |
| SAE | Shared Application Environment |
| SAE | Senior Articles Editor (law review) |
| SAE | Stand Alone Executive |
| SAE | Substance Abuse Evaluation |
| SAE | Syarikat Azmir Engineering (Malaysia) |
| SAE | Special Area of Emphasis |
| SAE | Systems Application Engineering, Inc. |
| SAE | Stafford Act Employee |
| SAE | Society of Afghan Engineers |
| SAE | Suspended Access Equipment |
| SAE | Same Assholes Everywhere |
| SAE | Secretarial Acquisition Executive (DoE) |
| SAE | Software Architecture Engineering |
| SAE | Solar Array Experiment |
| SAE | Surface Artificielle d'Escalade (French) |
| SAE | Secrétaire des Affaires Étrangères (French: Secretary of Foreign Affairs) |
| SAE | Secure Attribute Exchange |
| SAE | Sustainable Agriculture Education |
| SAE | Services d'Aide aux Employés (French: Employee Assistance Service; Canada) |
| SAE | Single Above Elbow (amputation) |
| SAE | Sons of Adam and Eve |
| SAE | Systems Architecture & Engineering |
| SAE | Societe Anonyme Egyptienne (French: Egyptian Joint Stock Company) |
| SAE | Spreading Activation Energy |
| SAE | Stand Alone Edit |
| SAE | Services Assisted Evacuation |
| SAE | Scientific Audio Engineers |
| SAE | Somebody Anybody Everybody |
| SAE | Site Acceptance Evaluation |
| SAE | Secure Architecture Evaluation (SBC) |
| SAE | Seamless Access Environment |
| SAE | Shipboard Antenna Electronics |
| SAE | Study of Artillery Effects |
| SAE | Sharing-of-ELINT Analysis Effort |