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

Bringing my private and public sector experience to the nonprofit space has been tremendously fulfilling. —Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025

And because of the importance of public sector unions to the broader US labor movement, Trump’s moves could deal a massive blow to the union momentum that had been growing under President Joe Biden. —Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025

But in Maryland’s public sector, all teachers can do is plead, rally and hope. —Tim Wright, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2025

Selgin dismisses arguments that strong and steady growth after the war reflected the stabilizing impact of a larger public sector, improvements in monetary policy, a robustly expanding global economy, and strict regulation that suppressed the risk of banking crises for a quarter of a century. —Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for public sector

• eigenvector
• bisector
• collector
• connector
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• deflector
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• director
• dissector
• effector
• ejector