private sector
See also: private-sector
English
Etymology
Noun
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.
- 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
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