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

Many public sector workers survive on roughly $160 per month, while the average private sector employee earned about $237 last year. —Regina Garcia Cano, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2026

Many public sector workers survive on roughly $160 per month, while the average private sector employee earned about $237 last year. —Regina Garcia Cano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026

The flagship annual Semafor World Economy platform in Washington, DC will grow from three days to five in 2026, featuring extended programming of news-making conversations with private and public sector leaders on the most pressing issues of the new world economy. —Rachel Keidan, semafor.com, 7 Jan. 2026

And while public sector unions were expanding, private sector unions were beginning to atrophy. —Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for public sector

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