Sector Growth Part Noun ˈsektə(R ˈsektər Service/Banking/Manufacturing/Financial Jobs

• the service/banking/manufacturing/financial sector
• jobs in the agricultural sector
• she works in the voluntary sector (= organizations that do not make a profit).
• we have seen rapid growth in the services sector.

sector

1. a part of an area of activity, especially of a country’s economy
• SEE ALSO private sector
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/the-private-sector
• the service/banking/manufacturing/financial sector
• jobs in the agricultural sector
• She works in the voluntary sector (= organizations that do not make a profit).
• We have seen rapid growth in the services sector.
• the privileged sectors of society

Extra Examples

• The survey covers a wide range of industry sectors.
• the chronic underfunding of the education sector
• Increased state investment will lead to more job opportunities in the manufacturing sector.
• The largest growth has been in the service sector.
2. a part of a particular area, especially an area under military control
• each sector of the war zone
• The partition of the city meant that members of the same family were living in different sectors.

Extra Examples

• Berlin was divided into four sectors after the war.
• Most of the gas will come from the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
3. a part of a circle lying between two straight lines drawn from the centre to the edge

Word Origin

• late 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from late Latin, a technical use of Latin sector ‘cutter’, from sect- ‘cut off’, from the verb secare.