public sector

noun

: the part of an economy which is controlled or owned by the government

a job in the public sector

Examples of public sector in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Tim Yeung, a public sector labor law expert, said that state workers’ contracts include a no-strike provision that prevents work stoppages from occurring while those agreements are in effect. —William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 21 May 2025

One powerful example came during an organizational shift in a public sector agency. —Andre Shojaie, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025

Cuomo’s history with public sector unions has cost him the endorsement of DC37, the city’s largest municipal employee union, which opted to throw its weight behind Council Speaker Adrienne Adams in part because of Cuomo’s pension decision, President Henry Garrido said last month. —Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025

But some other, less historically high-status NS-SEC 1 professions, including a number of technical professions and public sector occupations, are more accessible for people from working-class origins. —Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 25 May 2025

Rhymes for public sector

• eigenvector
• bisector
• collector
• connector
• corrector
• defector
• deflector
• detector
• director
• dissector
• effector
• ejector