Collocations for "sector"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "sector" in context.
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sector
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- the [health, tourism, food, retail, finance, automotive, housing, energy] sector
- [jobs, positions, opportunities, vacancies] in the [health] sector
- operates in the [private, public] sector
- forecast [strong, increased, ten-percent] growth in the sector
- is a leader in [the, their] sector
- a [tough, boom, difficult] period for the sector
- a sector of a [shape, circle, cylinder]
- [private, public] -sector [workers, organizations, companies]
- [private] -sector [involvement, investment, jobs, funding, bodies]
'sector' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
associate
- backbone
- banking
- boom
- building
- catering
- cattle
- cleaning
- coal
- communication
- competitive
- competitor
- composition
- construction
- consumption
- decline
- developing
- dominate
- employ
- experience
- farming
- female
- finance
- giant
- growing
- infant
- informal
- key
- legal
- leisure
- major
- meat
- medical
- merger
- mobile
- nursing
- oil
- peer
- petrol
- player
- private
- property
- public
- publicity
- reliability
- rental
- resign
- rife
- ripe
- sag