Word.ws English Dictionary

public sector

public sector noun: any government and all entities that are controlled or funded by it.

Noun

public sector (plural public sectors)

  1. Any government and all entities that are controlled or funded by it.
    • It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the...2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
    • Worth said: "We have distribution companies wanting to decarbonise. We have freight hauliers wanting to invest in electric locomotives. All we need to make that happen is the public sector's contribution. […]"2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “CILT report urges £50m infill electrification schemes”, in RAIL, number 979, page 9

Adjective

public sector (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a public sector.

public sector meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Malay

public sector in Tamil

அரசு நிறுவனம், பொதுத் துறை, அரசுத் துறை

public sector in Malayalam

public sector
പൊതു മേഖല potu mēkhala

public sector in Kannada

ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರ, ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ರಂಗ, ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ವಲಯ

public sector in Malay

government and entities
sektor awam
More languagesFewer languages
public sector in Indonesian
sektor publik

Forms of public sector

pluralpublic sectors
alternative formpublic-sector

Origin of public sector

public + sector

Questions about public sector

What does public sector mean?
Public sector means any government and all entities that are controlled or funded by it.
What is public sector in Tamil?
Public sector in Tamil is அரசு நிறுவனம், பொதுத் துறை, அரசுத் துறை. See Public sector meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is public sector?
Public sector can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of public sector?
The plural of public sector is public sectors.

Words near public sector in the dictionary

  1. public rhetoric
  2. public safety announcement
  3. public safety announcements
  4. public school
  5. public schools
  6. public sector
  7. public sectors
  8. public servant
  9. public servants
  10. public service
  11. public service announcement

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: public sector (page history and authors); public sector (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പൊതു മേഖല (Malayalam) (page history and authors); public 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “public sector.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/public_sector. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.