private sector

noun

: the part of an economy which is not controlled or owned by the government

businesses in the private sector

private-sector businesses/gains

Examples of private sector in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Larsen has more than 20 years of leadership experience in AI and cybersecurity from the government and the private sector. —John Kell, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024

Hawley has been trying to help built the populist wing of the Republican Party, mixing a culturally conservative message with support for private sector unions (but not public sector unions). —Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2024

At the same time, researchers and the private sector are racing to develop software to detect voice clones, with companies often marketing them as fraud-detection tools. —Huo Jingnan, NPR, 5 Apr. 2024

But as its operations have been curtailed, aid deliveries coordinated by the private sector have increasingly filled the void. —Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024

That core of private sector unions, joined later by growing activism in local public sector unions, sustained the city’s labor movement even amid former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attacks on unions in the 2010s. —TIME, 2 Apr. 2024

Profits enjoyed by the private sector as the result of slavery grew nearly 40% since it was last measured by the International Labour Organization in 2014. —Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

This was done in collaboration with the private sector but initiated, directed, and financed by the public sector. —James C. Robinson, STAT, 29 Mar. 2024

Gains in the private sector were offset by losses in government jobs. —John Magsam, arkansasonline.com, 27 Mar. 2024