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 Meanwhile, hiring has cooled in many white-collar sectors such as software development or marketing, the very industries most exposed to AI. — Svenja Gudell, Fortune, 18 July 2026 Oil price booms have increased Nigeria’s wealth, but an overdependence on crude has weakened investment in other sectors, while corruption and poor governance remain rampant. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 17 July 2026 Outside defense, the same software could find applications across commercial aerospace, autonomous vehicles, industrial monitoring and other sectors where AI must deliver reliable performance on compact, low-power computing platforms. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 July 2026 That’s not like-for-like, that is looking at two different sectors of, of the landscape and combining them. — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 July 2026 Investors have also rotated into other sectors like financials while moving away from tech stocks. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 17 July 2026 Meanwhile, recruiters in the tech and corporate sectors are de-risking their hiring process. — Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 And there are a few sectors that are quite so sensitive to timelines as photography. — K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 17 July 2026 The crash killed Joshua Baer, a leader in Texas’ technology and startup sectors. — ABC News, 10 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sectors
  1. regions
  2. segments
  3. sections
  4. districts
  5. zones
Noun
  • Northern Nigeria, one of the world’s poorest regions, is already under pressure from an insurgency crisis.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026
  • Desalination plants are significant in the Middle East region, providing a key lifeline of drinking water and sustaining certain remote regions through droughts.
    — Monica Haider, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Definition of regions
Noun
  • Instead, the government aims to build domestic alternatives in strategic segments representing roughly 20% to 30% of the market, including government cloud services, databases and simpler enterprise systems.
    — Lidia Kurasinska, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Catastrophe losses of $518 million were nearly half of last year’s $927 million and reserve development was favorable across all three segments while investment income grew 14% year over year.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 20 July 2026
Definition of segments
Noun
  • The Post confirmed that in each of the five spots, five hours or more had elapsed between when adjacent sections were sprayed.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 16 July 2026
  • Bulldozers shuffled right through the rubble to make roads that cut Gaza into separate sections.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
Definition of sections
Noun
  • Now more than ever, the opportunity is to create edtech tools that deliver the measurable gains districts want to see for their students and teachers.
    — Ulrich Boser, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • The two remaining students already were of junior high school age and were in the midst of attending middle school in neighboring districts as part of an agreement that McAuley leaders reached with District 33 in the late 1980s.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
Definition of districts
Noun
  • As the days went on, Mainoo cut a forlorn figure walking through various mixed zones, often being among the first to board the team bus.
    — Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • Yes, cutting down on traffic, for instance through clean-air zones, will reduce both lives lost on the roads and lives lost due to air pollution.
    — Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of zones

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