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private sector

private sector noun: all organizations in an economy or jurisdiction that are not controlled by government, including privately owned businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

Noun

private sector (plural private sectors)

  1. 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.
    • 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

private sector meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Malay

private sector in Tamil

organizations not controlled by government
தனியார் துறை taṉiyār tuṟai

private sector in Malayalam

organizations not controlled by government
സ്വകാര്യ മേഖല svakārya mēkhala

private sector in Kannada

ಖಾಸಗಿ ವಲಯ

private sector in Malay

organizations not controlled by government
sektor swasta

Antonyms of private sector

Forms of private sector

pluralprivate sectors

Origin of private sector

private + sector

Questions about private sector

What does private sector mean?
Private sector means all organizations in an economy or jurisdiction that are not controlled by government, including privately owned businesses and not-for-profit organizations.
What is private sector in Tamil?
Private sector in Tamil is தனியார் துறை (taṉiyār tuṟai). See Private sector meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is private sector?
Private sector is a noun.
What is the plural of private sector?
The plural of private sector is private sectors.

Words near private sector in the dictionary

  1. private property anarchism
  2. private property anarchist
  3. private property anarchists
  4. private school
  5. private schools
  6. private sector
  7. private sectors
  8. private ship
  9. private ships
  10. private shop
  11. private shops

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: private sector (page history and authors); private sector (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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