- a part of an area of activity, especially of a country’s economy
- the service/banking/manufacturing/financial sector
- in a 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
Collocations The economyThe economyManaging the economysee also private sector, public sector, third sector- handle/run/manage the economy
- boost investment/spending/employment/growth
- stimulate demand/the economy/industry
- cut/reduce investment/spending/borrowing
- reduce/curb/control/keep down inflation
- create/fuel growth/demand/a boom/a bubble
- encourage/foster/promote/stimulate/stifle innovation/competition
- encourage/work with/compete with the private sector
- increase/boost/promote US/agricultural exports
- ban/restrict/block cheap/foreign imports
- the economy grows/expands/shrinks/contracts/slows (down)/recovers/improves/is booming
- enjoy an economic/housing/property boom
- push up/drive up prices/costs/inflation
- damage/hurt/destroy industry/the economy
- cause/lead to/go into/avoid/escape recession
- experience/suffer a recession/downturn
- fight/combat inflation/deflation/unemployment
- cause/create inflation/poverty/unemployment
- create/burst a housing/stock market bubble
- cause/trigger a stock market crash/the collapse of the banking system
- face/be plunged into a financial/an economic crisis
- be caught in/experience cycles of boom and bust
- cut/reduce/slash/increase/double the defence/education/aid budget
- increase/boost/slash/cut public spending
- increase/put up/raise/cut/lower/reduce taxes
- raise/cut/lower/reduce interest rates
- ease/loosen/tighten monetary policy
- balance the (state/federal) budget
- achieve/maintain a balanced budget
- run a ($4 trillion) budget deficit/surplus
- impose taxes/austerity measures
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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- important
- key
- growing
- …
- in a/the sector
- a sector of the economy
- a sector of the industry
- a sector of the market
- …
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- a part of a particular area, especially an area under military control
- each sector of the war zone
- in a sector 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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- rural
- urban
- northern
- …
- divide something into
- a sector of the city
- a sector of society
- a sector of the population
- …
- (geometry) a part of a circle lying between two straight lines drawn from the centre to the edge
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from late Latin, a technical use of Latin sector ‘cutter’, from sect- ‘cut off’, from the verb secare.
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