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noun

sector

CEFR B2

a distinct part of an economy or society

In a sentence

Six example sentences with sector, each labelled with its topic.

  • Manufacturing shrank to a tenth of output while the services sector absorbed most of the workers leaving the factories.

    Economics

  • The fund holds nothing outside the energy sector, so a single oil price shock moves its whole valuation.

    Finance

  • Three founders left banking for the health sector, betting that clinics would pay for software hospitals had ignored.

    Startups

  • The public sector employs a third of the town, so any talk of cutting council jobs decides the election.

    Politics

  • The technology sector hired faster than any other, and the city's rents doubled in five years.

    Technology

  • Retail is the one sector where the firm has never turned a profit, despite three attempts in twenty years.

    Business

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