| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| CRE | Commercial Real Estate |
| CRE | Commission for Racial Equality (Scotland) |
| CRE | CCD (Charge Coupled Device) and Readout Electronics |
| CRE | Corporate Real Estate |
| CRE | Counselor of Real Estate (member of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors) |
| CRE | Commission de Régulation de l'Energie (France) |
| CRE | Cyclic AMP Response Element (genetics) |
| CRE | Conférences Régionales des élus (Quebec, Canada) |
| CRE | Certified Reliability Engineer |
| CRE | Corrosion Resistant |
| CRE | Centre for Research in Education |
| CRE | cis-regulatory element (DNA) |
| CRE | Coordinator of Religious Education (religious order) |
| CRE | Cosmic Ray Exposure |
| CRE | Commander Royal Engineers |
| CRE | Council for Responsible E-Mail |
| CRE | Centre for Research and Evaluation (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) |
| CRE | Center for Risk Excellence |
| CRE | Columbia River Estuary |
| CRE | Chesapeake Ranch Estates |
| CRE | Confederation of Reformed Evangelicals (Moscow, Idaho) |
| CRE | Contingency Response Element (USAF) |
| CRE | Cyclization Recombination |
| CRe | Capabilities Request |
| CRE | Control and Reporting Element |
| CRE | control reporting element (US DoD) |
| CRE | Cumulative Residual Entropy |
| CRE | Combat Readiness Evaluation |
| CRE | Chief Royal Engineer (Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army) |
| CRE | Crisis Response Element |
| CRE | Corrected Reference Equivalent |
| CRE | Center for Resource Economics |
| CRE | Contaminant Removal Efficiency |
| CRE | Cellular Radio Exchange |
| CRE | Cost Reduction Effort |
| CRE | Chain-of-Rare-Events (model) |
| CRE | Checkout & Readiness Equipment |
| CRE | Course Resource Estimate |
| CRE | Conférence Permanente des Recteurs, des Présidents et Vice-Chanceliers des Universités Européennes (French: Standing Conference of Rectors, Presidents and Vice-Chancellors of European Universities) |
| CRE | Classification, Recovery, and Evacuation |
| CRE | Component Responsible Engineering |
| CRE | Campaign for Rural England |
| CRE | Compressor, Refrigerant, Evaporative |
| CRE | Coast Rescue Equipment |
| CRE | Combat Reconnaissance Element |
| CRE | Color Resolution Enhancement |
| CRE | Console Remote Equipment |
| CRE | Collection, Reclamation, & Exchange |
| CRE | Constant Radial Expansion |
| CRE | cAMP (Adenosine 3'5' Cyclic Monophosphate) Response Element (biochemistry) |
| CRE | Cree/Cri (language) |
| CRE | Comisión Reguladora de Energía (México) |