private sector en · NOUN
Etymology
private + sector
Meanings
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All organizations in an economy or jurisdiction that are not controlled by government, including privately owned businesses and not-for-profit organizations.
After spending two decades at various government agencies, he returned to the private sector and took a job as a business consultant.
After decades of observation, it's pretty obvious to me that all governments are uniformly useless at actually running anything, so we need to employ the private sector to do the job for us on properly specified contracts [...].
2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.
2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| private sectors | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
public sector (antonym(s) of “business”)
Relateds
Translations (18)
ml സ്വകാര്യ മേഖല (organizations not controlled by government) · ru ча́стный се́ктор (organizations not controlled by government) · hu magánszektor (organizations not controlled by government) · ta தனியார் துறை (organizations not controlled by government) · gd roinn phrìobhaideach (organizations not controlled by government) · sw sekta ya binafsi (organizations not controlled by government) · fi yksityinen sektori (organizations not controlled by government) · pl sektor prywatny (organizations not controlled by government) · cmn 私人部門 /私人部门 (organizations not controlled by government) · hu maszek (organizations not controlled by government) · el ιδιωτικός τομέας (organizations not controlled by government) · mi rāngai tūmataiti (organizations not controlled by government) · sv privat sektor (organizations not controlled by government) · fr secteur privé (organizations not controlled by government) · fi yksityissektori (organizations not controlled by government) · ms sektor swasta (organizations not controlled by government) · ja 民間セクター (organizations not controlled by government) · de Privatsektor (organizations not controlled by government)