private sector

Speech parts

1. private sector - Noun

2. private sector - Adjective

Meaning

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private sector (plural private sectors)

(business) 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.

private-sector (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to the private sector.

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Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything done by the private sector. John Ralston Saul

I always intended to return to the private sector. Don Nickles

The private sector is doing fine. Barack Obama

We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector. David Letterman

Again, the American people expect us to do what they are doing. It's tightening the belt, it's learning how to do more with less. That's a reality today, and we've got to do that in order to get the private sector growing. Eric Cantor

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector. George Galloway

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