public sector

noun

: the part of an economy which is controlled or owned by the government

a job in the public sector

Examples of public sector in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The findings are based on a global survey of 2,400 cybersecurity decision makers across private and public sector organizations of 500 employees and above. —Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 21 May 2024

As a result, some 130,000 public sector workers in the West Bank have received only a fraction of their wages; the thousands of doctors, nurses, teachers, and police employed by the PA have received 60% of their monthly salaries. —Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024

The union represents 45,000 public sector workers statewide, 10,000 of whom live in Baltimore. —Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2024

With jobs in Israel lost and public sector wages unpaid, the cumulative weight of the war is dragging down the economy, too. —Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024

The list included medical professionals, teachers, police officers, members of the U.S. armed forces, public sector employees and private sector employees. —Adam Eichen, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024

Birmingham’s financial troubles linked to pay disparity began in 2012 when the U.K. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of public sector employees—mostly female—who weren’t paid equally compared with their male counterparts for years. —Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 3 May 2024

Hawley has been trying to help built the populist wing of the Republican Party, mixing a culturally conservative message with support for private sector unions (but not public sector unions). —Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2024

That core of private sector unions, joined later by growing activism in local public sector unions, sustained the city’s labor movement even amid former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attacks on unions in the 2010s. —TIME, 2 Apr. 2024