private sector

See also: private-sector

English

Etymology

private + sector

Noun

private sector (plural private sectors)

1. (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.

   • 2013 August 10, Schumpeter, “Cronies and capitols”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     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.

Antonyms

• (business): public sector

Translations

organizations not controlled by government

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 私人部門／私人部门 (sīrén bùmén), 私人部门 (sīrén bùmén)

• Finnish: yksityissektori (fi), yksityinen sektori
• French: secteur privé (fr) m
• German: Privatsektor m
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• Japanese: 民間セクター (minkan-sekutā)
• Maori: rāngai tūmataiti
• Russian: ча́стный се́ктор m (částnyj séktor)
• Scottish Gaelic: roinn phrìobhaideach f
• Swedish: privat sektor c

See also

• public sector