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 Members of the Service Employees International Union in California — a major labor organization that had worried about the effects of the measure on funding for teachers, police officers, firefighters and other public sector employees — also praised the decision. —

Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024 The primary driver of the system’s grade change issues was teachers, mostly in elementary schools, entering grades late after the marking period ended, said Jim Grady, an Alvarez & Marsal managing director of public sector services. —

Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2024 Listening to labor leaders, Biden and pro-labor members of Congress provided funding and mandates in the American Rescue Plan that protected scores of public sector employees, like transit workers, from being laid off. —

John Samuelsen, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2024 This reckless level of spending ignores the warnings of the United States, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank, which have called on Iraq to reduce its bloated public sector. —

Michael Knights, Foreign Affairs, 5 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for public sector

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