CRE

CRE or cre may refer to:

Organizations

 * Campaign for Real Education, a British educational advocacy group
 * Castle Rock Entertainment, an American film and television production company
 * Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, an American lobbying firm
 * China Railway Express Company, a parcel and cargo shipping arm of China Railway
 * Commission de régulation de l'énergie, the French energy regulator
 * Commission for Racial Equality, a former British government body
 * Cumann Rothaíochta na hÉireann (Cycling Ireland), an Irish national cycling organization

Science

 * cAMP response element, a type of DNA sequence bound to by CREB
 * Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, an antibiotic-resistant bacteria family
 * Chemical reaction engineering, chemical engineering or industrial chemistry dealing with chemical reactors
 * Cis-acting replication element, a component of many RNA viruses
 * Cis-regulatory element, regions of non-coding DNA which regulate the transcription of neighboring genes
 * Cre recombinase, an enzyme that catalyzes a type of site-specific homologous recombination
 * I-CreI, a homing endonuclease

Transport

 * CRE, LRT station abbreviation for Coral Edge LRT station, Singapore
 * CRE, National Railway station code for Crewe railway station, Cheshire, England
 * CRE, airport code for Grand Strand Airport near North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S.

Other

 * Camp Rock Enon, a Boy Scout camp in Virginia
 * Commander, Royal Engineers, the senior Royal Engineers officer in a British Army division, usually a lieutenant-colonel
 * Commercial real estate, see Commercial property
 * Common Recruitment Examination, an examination for recruiting civil servants in Hong Kong
 * Corporate real estate, real property held or used by a business enterprise or organization for its own operational purposes