public sector

Speech parts

1. public sector - Noun

2. public sector - Adjective

Meaning

public sector (plural public sectors)

Any government and all entities that are controlled or funded by it.

public sector (not comparable)

Of or relating to a public sector.

public-sector (not comparable)

Alternative spelling of public sector

Alternative names

public-sector

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Examples

...on youth unemployment - governments should ensure that one out of three of jobs in the public sector are opened up to the youth and that at least one person in every household should have access to a job. Tawakkol Karman

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. David Rockefeller

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers. Lawrence Klein

It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector. Irving Kristol

To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense. Bob Rae

It is an irony of history that the public sector union, my union, in which I am a member for over 50 years, that imagines that the public service should be the pacemaker in the wage increase. One must be crazy. Helmut Schmidt

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