sectors

noun

plural of sector
1
as in regions
a specific area or part of an area They worked in the industrial sector of the city.

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2
as in segments
a part of a sphere of activity The outlook for jobs in the health-care sector of the economy is excellent.

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Recent Examples of sectors These are sectors where successes are built over decades rather than years. — Jan Larsson, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026 Other sectors like industrial, regional malls, and even office are seeing positive returns, despite higher interest rates. — Diana Olick, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026 Some ETFs focus on sectors such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology or oil and gas. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026 Specifically, the executive order would need to set out which countries’ commercial sectors should be targeted for intelligence collection. — David S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026 And with small California farms increasingly going out of business and more agricultural land being fallowed, the report’s findings help show how difficulties in the food production and processing industries could spell trouble for other sectors. — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026 But the sectors built on human presence, judgment and adaptability aren’t going anywhere. — Philip Weinberg, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Ellison will head the company’s strategy, creative and technology sectors, while Kreiz will focus on day-to-day operations and integrating the two companies, Paramount said in a statement. — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sectors
  1. regions
  2. segments
  3. sections
  4. districts
  5. zones
Noun
  • Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Ukraine targeted two oil facilities and a training ground in the Perm, Samara and Astrakhan regions of Russia.
    — SAMYA KULLAB, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
  • At the end of the project, Fashion for Good will release the Roadmap for Cotton Circularity report, which will lay out what is needed from a data perspective to scale the use of recycled cotton in different product verticals and regions.
    — Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of regions
Noun
  • At this point in the shoot, the host segments that serve as interstitials for the movie mocking that made the original a success have all been filmed.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Still, few major vehicle segments are showing that kind of growth this year.
    — Chris Hardesty, AJC.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of segments
Noun
  • With two sections framing her face in the front, the back half of her head was teased and tangled into a little bouffant lift at the crown.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Separate sections were constructed at puppet scale, allowing animators to stage performances that could be integrated with miniature elements and digital backgrounds.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of sections
Noun
  • No longer confined to gambling dens and brothel districts, yakuza muscled their way into other businesses, some legal, some not.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Here’s the Week 8 schedule for Fort Worth-area high school football teams and schools in area districts.
    — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of districts
Noun
  • Disaster zones are terrible places to follow a preplanned route.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The design physically splits the site into two distinct zones.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of zones

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“Sectors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sectors. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.

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